[Freedombox-discuss] Re-SOLVED: Unattended updates not running

[James Valleroy]

On 10/05/2016 02:50 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [znoteer at hailmail.net]
>> This file belongs to apt.  However, it is not part of the .deb for
>> version 1.3, which I am running.  A guy on #debian, also running apt
>> 1.3, confirmed that /etc/cron.daily/apt wasn't present on his system. 
>> Another guy running apt 1.0 did have the file on his system.
> 
> I suspect the source is this change in apt 1.2.10:
> 
>   * Use systemd.timer instead of a cron job (Closes: #600262, #709675, #663290)
>     (LP: #246381, #727685)
> 
> James pointed this out in his email 2016-09-13.  I thus suspect there is
> a problem with the systemd timer instead.  Apparently the cron file
> should no longer be used.
> 
> When I check the status of that service on my freedombox, I notice it
> haven't run for a long time:
> 
>   root at freedombox:~# systemctl status apt-daily.service
>   * apt-daily.service - Daily apt activities
>      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apt-daily.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
>      Active: inactive (dead) since to. 2016-09-22 17:03:30 UTC; 1 weeks 6 days ago
>        Docs: man:apt(8)
>    Main PID: 24188 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
> 
>   Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is
>   incomplete or unavailable.
> 
> I have no idea why.  I ran 'apt upgrade' manually today, and hope things
> will improve now.
> 

In my case, I had to fix some broken upgrades, and then reboot the
system. But I can see daily updates in the logs now.

-- 
James

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