On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:12:24PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi KatolaZ,
>
> KatolaZ writes:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> >>
> >> I'm using this on two Devuan machines at the office. Works fine for
> >> me. Apart from running the `apt upgrade` it can also check for the need to
> >> reboot and provides a number of knobs to fine tune when, how and under
> >> what conditions to upgrade/reboot.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Olaf,
> >
> > have you found unattended-upgrades automatically installed on those
> > two boxen, or have you instead apt-get installed it afterwards?
>
> Afterwards. Both are servers and I have a habit of doing
>

Thanks a lot.

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> > regular bug, so at that time we must have concluded that no special
> > "burial ceremony" was in order :D
>
> Searching ... found it! Apologies for misremembering. The bug was with
> systemd-sysv and happened on the one Debian server I'm also maintaining.
> It was exposed by unattended-upgrades' `shutdown -r` in the absence of
> dbus. That server also got the "zap everything that's not really needed
> and keep it that way" APT treatment above ;-)
>
> For those interested in the details, see
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898388
>

I have the impression that that one might have already been solved in
the latest versions of sysvinit anyway (if it ever was a problem for
sysvinit). But yes, it is sad that dbus is required in Debian also for
such simple tasks :\

HND

KatolaZ

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