"Restart services during package upgrades without asking?" fails to honor --yes for apt-get

[Jani Uusitalo]

I left an old netbook to do an "apt-get -y dist-upgrade" overnight, and when I returned to it the next morning, the upgrades were unfinished because libc upgrade was waiting for me to respond to "Restart services during package upgrades without asking?"

It looks like the question is prioritized depending on whether the upgrade is done on desktop or not, and if it's not, the priority is set critical. According to documentation [1], critical is for "Items that will probably break the system without user intervention." I don't think restart-without-asking satisfies that condition.

* [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html#AEN101

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libc6 2.15-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 18 21:07:37 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eglibc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-17 (1 days ago)

[David Chaiken (chaiken)]

I ran into a similar problem today when doing a headless install on EC2 using cloud-init. The solution to the problem was to set
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive in the shell environment.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

This issues show up again on Bionic now.