Xenial was not affected by this bug due to the fix of LP: #1821101 was not released to Xenial.
The fix for LP: #1821101 however will be released including the fix for the regression for this bug thus the verification of this regression fix is needed. Verified 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.7~16.04.3 on Xenial: Original version: root@x-lp-1824804:~# dpkg -l unattended-upgrades | cat 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 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.7~16.04.2 all automatic installation of security upgrades root@x-lp-1824804:~# unattended-upgrade --verbose --debug Initial blacklisted packages: Initial whitelisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: o=Ubuntu,a=xenial, o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-security, o=UbuntuESM,a=xenial ... Checking: libpam-systemd ([<Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>, <Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-security' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'security.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>]) package libpam-systemd upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.) Checking: libsystemd0 ([<Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>, <Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-security' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'security.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>]) package libsystemd0 upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.) Checking: systemd ([<Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>, <Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-security' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'security.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>]) pkg systemd is on hold sanity check failed pkgs that look like they should be upgraded: Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) fetch.run() result: 0 blacklist: [] Fixed version: root@x-lp-1824804:~# dpkg -l unattended-upgrades | cat 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 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.7~16.04.3 all automatic installation of security upgrades root@x-lp-1824804:~# unattended-upgrade --verbose --debug Initial blacklisted packages: Initial whitelisted packages: Starting unattended upgrades script Allowed origins are: o=Ubuntu,a=xenial, o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-security, o=UbuntuESM,a=xenial ... Checking: libpam-systemd ([<Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>, <Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial-security' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'security.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>]) package libpam-systemd upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.) falling back to adjusting libpam-systemd's dependencies recursively adjusting candidate version: libaudit1=1:2.4.5-1ubuntu2 adjusting candidate version: init-system-helpers=1.29ubuntu1 adjusting candidate version: libpam-modules=1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2 ... ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial ** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1824804 Title: Unattended upgrades falls back to adjust all upgradable packages in attempt to install held packages Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Cosmic: Fix Committed Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Disco: Fix Committed Bug description: [Impact] * The fix for LP: #1821101 allowed installing packages for which APT's resolver could not find solution for without adjusting other packages, but also tries to adjust many packages to install packages which are held back. [Test Case] * Set up a system where systemd (or a package that can't be upgraded without also upgrading other packages) need to be upgraded to the version in -security. * Mark systemd on hold apt-mark hold systemd * Observe u-u falling back to adjusting all upgradable packages in unfixed versions and adjusting only a few in fixed versions: # unattended-upgrade --verbose --debug ... adjusting candidate version: libnss-systemd=237-3ubuntu10.19 falling back to marking libnss-systemd, then adjusting changes package libnss-systemd upgradable but fails to be marked for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.) falling back to adjusting all packages adjusting candidate version: 2ping=4.1-1 ... Fixed: ... adjusting candidate version: libnss-systemd=237-3ubuntu10.19 falling back to adjusting libnss-systemd's dependencies recursively adjusting candidate version: libnss-systemd=237-3ubuntu10.19 adjusting candidate version: libkmod2=24-1ubuntu3 adjusting candidate version: mount=2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3 adjusting candidate version: libmount1=2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3 ... [Regression Potential] * The less extensive fallback may not find solutions for installing packages with special relationships that the full fallback could have found, but I don't know about such special cases in the archive and the autopkgtest cover a fair set of popular packages. Keeping back those packages seems to be better than spending a lot of CPU time on finding a few solutions - which still was not enough to find _all_ solutions. 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