OK, I have now tested this new apt (1.4.1) against the old version (1.4). My setup is using solely systemd (with no upstart nor cgmanager installed). I have fast SSD's, so my normal booting time is about 4 seconds.
Now after upgrading to apt 1.4.1 the booting time to GDM increased with about 5 to 8 seconds. During boot the computer stops just before GDM is starts. I think systemd now waits till network is OK. As a workaround, downgrading back to apt 1.4 solves the issue and booting time to GDM is 4 seconds. This should be fixed and till that this update kept in proposed. ** Tags added: block-proposed -- 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/1615482 Title: apt-daily timer runs at random hours of the day Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: apt, from 1.2.10 onwards (ie any version in Xenial, onwards) uses a systemd timer instead of a cron.daily job. This is a good thing, decoupling apt daily runs from the rest of cron, and ensuring other cron.daily jobs are not blocked by up to half an hour by the default settings of unattended-upgrades. However the policy chosen is to have the apt daily script run at a random hour of the day in a wrong headed attempt to reduce server load. This has the side effect of running unattended-upgrades at random hours of the day — such as business hours — rather than being confined to between 6:25am and 6:55am, using the defaults. A better policy would be to have the script activate at 6:00am plus an interval of 20 minutes at one second intervals reducing the impact of timezone population spikes, while still allowing unattended-upgrades to run within a predictable interval, before 7am. At the very least, some sort of note in the NEWS file detailing the new behaviour would be welcome. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1615482/+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
