Hi, I can confirm the issue. We have several virtual machines with 22.04 (upgraded from 18.04) with the same issue on each qemu-guest-agent upgrade. In the follow example the service is stopped with he upgrade of the package at '2023-07-17 13:21:02'
root@vm1:~# grep -i qemu /var/log/dpkg.log 2023-07-03 20:58:18 upgrade qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-03 20:58:18 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27 2023-07-03 20:58:18 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27 2023-07-03 20:58:18 status half-installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27 2023-07-03 20:59:18 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-03 21:00:06 configure qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 <none> 2023-07-03 21:00:06 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-03 21:00:06 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-03 21:00:06 status installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-17 13:21:02 upgrade qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 2023-07-17 13:21:02 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-17 13:21:02 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-17 13:21:02 status half-installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 2023-07-17 13:21:02 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 2023-07-17 13:21:05 configure qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 <none> 2023-07-17 13:21:05 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 2023-07-17 13:21:05 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 2023-07-17 13:21:05 status installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 root@vm1:~# systemctl status qemu-guest-agent.service ○ qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2023-07-17 13:21:02 CEST; 2 days ago Main PID: 763 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 58ms Jul 11 05:42:42 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 12 05:44:36 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 13 04:43:06 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 14 05:57:13 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 15 05:46:10 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 16 06:22:59 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 17 05:40:00 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called Jul 17 13:21:02 vm1 systemd[1]: Stopping QEMU Guest Agent... Jul 17 13:21:02 vm1 systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Deactivated successfully. Jul 17 13:21:02 vm1 systemd[1]: Stopped QEMU Guest Agent. Kind regards, Achim -- 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/2028124 Title: apt dist-upgrade does not restart package qemu-guest-agent Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When my system Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS performs apt dist-upgrade (manually or from unattended upgrades) and there is an upadte on package qemu-guest-agent, the agent gets stopped, updated, but is not started. I observed this behaviour on two machines with same result. After I run the apt I see this in syslog, no errors: Jul 19 07:04:02 micro systemd[1]: Stopping QEMU Guest Agent... Jul 19 07:04:02 micro systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Deactivated successfully. Jul 19 07:04:02 micro systemd[1]: Stopped QEMU Guest Agent. Jul 19 07:04:02 micro systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Consumed 31min 49.962s CPU time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/2028124/+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