Right. apport wouldn't know to grab U-U logs for an apt bug. Attached. Also below is the journal snippet that lead me to conclude that system unit updates were responsible:
Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: Reloading. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: snapd.refresh.timer: Adding 10min 24.692802s random time. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: Reloading. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: snapd.refresh.timer: Adding 1h 3min 1.020974s random time. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: Stopped Daily apt activities. -- Subject: Unit apt-daily.service has finished shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support -- -- Unit apt-daily.service has finished shutting down. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 7h 38min 41.241571s random time. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 2h 14.441752s random time. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt activities... -- Subject: Unit apt-daily.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support -- -- Unit apt-daily.service has begun starting up. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: Started Daily apt activities. -- Subject: Unit apt-daily.service has finished start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support -- -- Unit apt-daily.service has finished starting up. -- -- The start-up result is done. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 10h 59min 12.586084s random time. Dec 14 02:40:02 sphinx systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 7h 36min 31.098210s random time. ** Attachment added: "unattended-upgrades.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1649959/+attachment/4791679/+files/unattended-upgrades.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1649959 Title: unattended upgrade of apt kills running apt-daily job To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1649959/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs