Since I had this problem only on my workstation, I have found that the cause was the network being down at the time Cron jobs were executed -- including u-a.
Yesterday, I've added a short python script to /etc/cron.hourly that sent a nice message every hour: | /etc/cron.hourly/unattended-upgrade: | {'DESCRIPTION': u'Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)', 'RELEASE': u'unstable', 'CODENAME': 'sid', 'OS': 'GNU/Linux', 'ID': 'Debian'} The python script is: | #! /usr/bin/python | | import lsb_release | print lsb_release.get_distro_information() Today U-A was executed with network UP and the log starts with: | Preconfiguring packages ... | {'DESCRIPTION': u'Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)', 'RELEASE': u'unstable', 'CODENAME': 'sid', 'OS': 'GNU/Linux', 'ID': 'Debian'} I don't know if there is anything to fix for this case. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org