Public bug reported: The recent change in Ubuntu 24.04 and needrestart which results in services being restarted automatically , details @ https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release- notes/39890#services-restart-on-unattended-upgrade-26, has resulted in unexpected behaviour on Google GCE ubuntu 24.04 images where if the google-guest-agent package is reinstalled then needrestart will restart the `google-startup-scripts.service` and `google-shutdown- scripts.service` but these should only be run during the lifetime of the instance and should not be restarted.
It can be worked around by setting `NEEDRESTART_SUSPEND=1` prior to any re-install as per the needrestart man pages @ https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/man1/needrestart.1.html?&_ga=2.32620542.1557010342.1713949275-1490161839.1713949275#environment or by appending to the needrestart configuration `echo "\$nrconf{override_rc}{qr(^google-(shutdown|startup)-scripts\.service$)} = 0;" >> /etc/needrestart/conf.d/google-guest-agent.conf` which will disable this behaviour for any future google-guest-agent upgrade or reinstall. This bug is to track the work of getting this added to the packaged `/etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf` configuration. Similar to the work done for cloud-init @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/needrestart/+bug/2059337 ** Affects: needrestart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: needrestart (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: needrestart (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063442 Title: needrestart on Ubuntu 24.04 is restarting google-guest-agent startup and shutdown scrips on reinstall but they should not be restarted To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/needrestart/+bug/2063442/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
