unattended-upgrade crashed with IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

[Leonardo de Almeida Soares Coelho]

Always happens as i logon

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.76
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-030400-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri May 25 01:09:56 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/sh
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade']
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
Title: unattended-upgrade crashed with IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Traceback: IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

A traceback would be really helpful for this error.

[Chris (birmingh)]

I get this same error on startup of 12.04. The crash report app has the same "Bad file descriptor" error. The crash only appears to happen on startup. I can run unattended-upgrade from the console after startup and no errors are returned. This crash happens every time I boot. Not sure how to get a traceback from an app at startup.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[David Ward (djw77)]

I get the same problem on 12.04

[David Ward (djw77)]

Contents of /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2013-03-07_08\:01\:00.261154.log

[John Pugh (jpugh)]

Going to mark as incomplete since this appears to be a issue with unattended-upgrades encountering something wrong in the files it reads from. In my case it appears a update to trusted.gpg did not complete and left a backup copy.

unattended-upgrades should instead handle the error more gracefully, but that needs to be a different bug.

[Samuel Doerig (samy-doerig)]

Absolute same issue here, if called from cron. When I call unattended-upgrade manually (directly logged in as root - not via sudo) no issues at all. Everything that's claimed "not found" is there in reality! root's PATH contains the needed paths. No I added PATH to root's crontab explicitly - will come back when this leads me to successful automatic unattended-upgrades...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[LAZA (laza74)]

Got this on 2 Internet-Cafe machines , one did the update.

Xubuntu 14.04.1

[Tuomas Heino (iheino+ub)]

Fyi, crash reporter claimed two instances of running out of space being DuplicateOf this bug.

In case of running out of inodes or disk space, crash reporter's "If you notice further problems, try restarting the computer." advice sounds rather harmful. Maybe a topic for another bug report though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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