The bug is still reproducible in xenial.
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# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
# grep Automatic-Reboot /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";
//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-Time "02:00";
# dpkg -l unattended-upgrades
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
+++-===========================================-==========================-==========================-===========================================================================================
ii unattended-upgrades 0.90ubuntu0.8 all
automatic installation of security upgrades
# touch /var/run/reboot-required
# unattended-upgrades --dry-run
(System reboots)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1269177
Title:
Running 'unattended-upgrades --dry-run' reboots the machine
Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Much to my surprise, when I did a dry-run test of unattended-upgrades
my server was forcibly rebooted. I must have had the file '/var/run
/reboot-required' present.
But needless to say: a --dry-run should NOT perform a reboot of the
server with zero warning. Seriously.
Output from /var/log/unattended-upgrades.log
2014-01-15 11:14:26,474 INFO Initial blacklisted packages:
2014-01-15 11:14:26,474 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
2014-01-15 11:14:26,475 INFO Allowed origins are:
['o=Ubuntu,a=precise-security']
2014-01-15 11:14:35,846 INFO Option --dry-run given, *not* performing real
actions
2014-01-15 11:14:35,846 INFO Packages that are upgraded: bind9-host dnsutils
libbind9-80 libdns81 libisc83 libisccc80 libisccfg82 liblwres80 libssl1.0.0
linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae linux-image-generic-pae
linux-libc-dev openssl
2014-01-15 11:14:35,847 INFO Writing dpkg log to
'/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2014-01-15_11:14:35.846820.log'
2014-01-15 11:15:10,610 INFO All upgrades installed
2014-01-15 11:15:10,611 WARNING Found /var/run/reboot-required, rebooting
Version: 0.76ubuntu1
As an aside, it makes a lot of sense to me to put the reboot on a
timer, even if it's only a one minute (i.e. shutdown -r 1). That would
have at least given me a chance to prevent the reboot if I had seen
the warning. If that's a configuration setting I don't see it
anywhere.
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