[Bug 664514] Re: Unattended upgrade fails with segmentation fault in Ubuntu Server 10.10

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 10 17:38:37 UTC 2011


** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu Maverick)
    Milestone: None => maverick-updates

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Title:
  Unattended upgrade fails with segmentation fault in Ubuntu Server 10.10

Status in Python-APT:
  Fix Released
Status in “python-apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “python-apt” source package in Maverick:
  New
Status in “python-apt” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  [SRU for maverick]

* This bug makes unattended-upgrade completely unusable.
* This bug was fixed in upstream version 0.7.98.
* Just one-line backporting
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/664514/+attachment/1769035/+files/python-apt_0.7.96.1ubuntu11.debdiff

TEST CASE:
1. Use out-of-date system which has security update notification
2. Run "$ sudo apt-get upgrade --download-only"
3. Run "$ sudo unattended-upgrade -d" and get Segmentation fault
4. Upgrade to -proposed package
5. Run "$ sudo unattended-upgrade -d" and all security updates get installed

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After upgrading from Ubuntu Server 10.04 to Ubuntu Server 10.10, I noticed that security updates were no longer being applied automatically (contrary to my configuration).

I did some poking around in the apt script (in etc/cron.daily).  Here is the output with debug mode on.  (I cleared out the time stamp files to force it to update now so errors regarding those are not important.)

power status (255) undetermined, continuing
system is on main power.
sleeping for 739 seconds
check_stamp: missing time stamp file: /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-stamp.
apt-key net-update (success)
download updated metadata (success).
send dbus signal (success)
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
check_stamp: missing time stamp file: /var/lib/apt/periodic/download-upgradeable-stamp.
download upgradable (success)
check_stamp: missing time stamp file: /var/lib/apt/periodic/upgrade-stamp.
Segmentation fault
unattended-upgrade (error)
check_stamp: missing time stamp file: /var/lib/apt/periodic/autoclean-stamp.
autoclean (success).
aged: ctime <30 and mtime <30 and ctime>2 and mtime>2
end remove by archive size: size=412396 < 512000

So, what's that seg fault in the middle there?  Turns out it is the call to /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade.

I can actually reproduce it like this:

$ sudo unattended-upgrade
Segmentation fault

Now, this is about all I know how to do to debug the issue.  If you'd like me to run a stack trace or something on unattended-upgrade to figure out why it is crashing, please point me towards some directions to do so.  (I notice that it is a python script and I am not very familiar with python.)  In any case, this is a security issue, since security updates cannot be installed automatically, I have to remember to check the server often to make sure that security updates are applied.







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