Dear Balint,
Thank you very much for the quick response.
Am 14.12.20 um 11:58 schrieb Balint Reczey:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:03 AM Paul Menzel <pmen...@molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
[…]
On one user laptop with Debian sid/unstable, unattended-upgrades does
not find upgradable packages.
From a dry run:
```
2020-12-14 09:51:17,335 INFO Checking if system is running on battery is
skipped. Please install powermgmt-base package to check power status and skip
installing updates when the system is running on battery.
2020-12-14 09:51:17,339 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
2020-12-14 09:51:17,339 INFO Allowed origins are:
origin=Debian,codename=buster,label=Debian,
origin=Debian,codename=buster,label=Debian-Security,
origin=Debian,codename=buster-security,label=Debian-Security
2020-12-14 09:51:17,339 INFO Initial blacklist:
2020-12-14 09:51:17,339 INFO Initial whitelist (not strict):
2020-12-14 09:51:22,899 INFO No packages found that can be upgraded unattended
and no pending auto-removals
2020-12-14 09:51:22,900 INFO The list of kept packages can't be calculated in
dry-run mode.
```
But upgradable packages are there:
```
$ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
autoconf/unstable,unstable 2.69-12 all [upgradable from: 2.69-11.1]
dde-qt5integration/unstable 5.0.0-2.1+b2 amd64 [upgradable from: 5.0.0-2.1+b1]
fonts-font-awesome/unstable,unstable 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4 all [upgradable
from: 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-2]
gcc-8-base/unstable 8.4.0-5 amd64 [upgradable from: 8.3.0-7]
gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0/unstable 2.42.2+dfsg-1 amd64 [upgradable from:
2.40.0+dfsg-10]
...
systemd/unstable 247.1-4 amd64 [upgradable from: 247.1-3]
udev/unstable 247.1-4 amd64 [upgradable from: 247.1-3]
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libboost-filesystem1.71.0 libboost-iostreams1.71.0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libboost-filesystem1.74.0 libboost-iostreams1.74.0
libboost-thread1.74.0 libdeflate0
The following packages have been kept back:
gcc-8-base libboost-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
autoconf dde-qt5integration fonts-font-awesome gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
...
systemd-timesyncd udev
116 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 101 MB of archives.
After this operation, 6,711 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
```
Is that expected, or am I missing something?
This (or something like that) is expected in unstable due to the fix in #960966.
Please change /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades if you want
u-u to try very hard to upgrade things:
...
// When APT fails to mark a package to be upgraded or installed try adjusting
// candidates of related packages to help APT's resolver in finding a solution
// where the package can be upgraded or installed.
// This is a workaround until APT's resolver is fixed to always find a
// solution if it exists. (See Debian bug #711128.)
// The fallback is enabled by default, except on Debian's sid release because
// uninstallable packages are frequent there.
// Disabling the fallback speeds up unattended-upgrades when there are
// uninstallable packages at the expense of rarely keeping back packages which
// could be upgraded or installed.
// Unattended-Upgrade::Allow-APT-Mark-Fallback "true";
Thank you for the hint, but I still do not understand, why it works on
other systems. Are the kept back packages a problem? Could a log message
be added to `unattended-upgrades.log`?
Kind regards,
Paul
--
Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer
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