[Bug 584817] Re: Stops updating if dpkg was interrupted

[Nikolaus Rath]

Can we get this into karmic?

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Title:
  Stops updating if dpkg was interrupted

Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades

  This was on an Ubuntu Karmic system with unattended-upgrades
  0.52ubuntu1. U-u was set up by enabling the "Install security updates
  without confirmation" option in the Update Manager.

  I examined this system (a laptop) today, and found that it had not
  received updates since February 5. When I hit the "Check" button in
  Update Manager, or ran "apt-get check", I got the following error:

      E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg
  --configure -a' to correct the problem.

  Sure enough, in u-u's /var/log/ subdirectory, I found a dpkg log from
  2010-02-05 in which the last line is

      update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-19-generic

  suggesting that the system ran out of battery or was otherwise
  forcibly shut down at that time.

  U-u should know how to clear up a dpkg log jam when one occurs, or
  else an absent-minded user can stop updates from coming in and no one
  will be the wiser. (This is a laptop owned by a non-savvy user, and I
  have only sporadic access to it.)

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