[Bug 1680599] Re: unattended-upgrades crashes without writing to the log on invalid config file entries

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

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Title:
  unattended-upgrades crashes without writing to the log on invalid
  config file entries

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  If Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins in 50unattended-upgrades
  contains an invalid entry, such as "invalid", unattended-upgrades
  crashes without writing to /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-
  upgrades.log.

  # unattended-upgrades --debug
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrades", line 1536, in <module>
      main(options)
    File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrades", line 1202, in main
      allowed_origins = get_allowed_origins()
    File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrades", line 343, in get_allowed_origins
      allowed_origins = get_allowed_origins_legacy()
    File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrades", line 328, in get_allowed_origins_legacy
      (distro_id, distro_codename) = s.split()
  ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

  0.92ubuntu1.2 on 16.10

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