Thanks for the info. I seem to have missed that. Any idea what else might be running? Or a workaround/fix?
These are pretty standard Ubuntu Desktop machines. And everything worked fine when I installed them last year. I doubt it's a strange configuration on my part. - Felix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1771135 Title: unattended upgrades always fail b/c dpkg status database is always locked Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, (Filing this bug against apt since that contains the systemd timers and cron job to start unattended-upgrades). I'm using unattended-upgrades on several computers. On the one that is on most of the time, updates work as expected. On the ones that are off most of the time, updates are never installed because there is always a "dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process". Running `unattended-upgrade -d` by hand or using aptitude works fine. I suspect that because these computers are off most of the time, the systemd timers for both apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade are always run at the same time during boot and resulting in the dpkg database being locked for apt-daily-upgrade. I will try disabling the systemd timers and using the cron job instead to see if that fixes the problem. FYI I also noticed that the cron job will only run when the system is on A/C power, whereas the systemd timers do not seem to have any such check. Thanks. - Felix ubuntu version: 16.04.4 LTS apt version: 1.2.26 unattended-upgrades version: 0.90ubuntu0.9 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1771135/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
