How to get automatic upgrades to work on Ubuntu Server?
- by J. Pablo Fernández
I followed the documentation for enabling automatic upgrades in Ubuntu servers, but it's not really updating anything at all.
My /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades looks almost like the default.
// Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin, archive) pairs
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
"Ubuntu karmic-security";
"Ubuntu karmic-updates";
};
// List of packages to not update
Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
// "vim";
// "libc6";
// "libc6-dev";
// "libc6-i686";
};
// Send email to this address for problems or packages upgrades
// If empty or unset then no email is sent, make sure that you
// have a working mail setup on your system. The package 'mailx'
// must be installed or anything that provides /usr/bin/mail.
Unattended-Upgrade::Mail "[email protected]";
// Automatically reboot *WITHOUT CONFIRMATION* if a
// the file /var/run/reboot-required is found after the upgrade
//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false";
The directory /var/log/unattended-upgrades/ is empty. Running /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades start is not very nice:
root@mozart:~# /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades start
Checking for running unattended-upgrades: root@mozart:~#
Something seems to be broken, but I'm not sure why.
I have pending updates and they are not being applied:
root@mozart:~# aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-libc-dev
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/743kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
In all the servers I have, unattended upgrades seems to have been disabled:
root@mozart:~# apt-config shell UnattendedUpgradeInterval APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade
root@mozart:~#
Any ideas what am I missing?
