unattended-upgrades not work in Ubuntu 16.04

[fabianbur]

This guide've used successfully in Ubuntu 14.04 but something is not working in Ubuntu 16.04:

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.html

I detected packages that need to be updated and the log of the application appears:

No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals

It never updated one by unattended-upgrades package for weeks that I have daily updated manually development version.

It is necessary that application to run on other machines I need to upgrade within a month with the stable version. Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-15.31-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Mar 23 15:46:21 2016
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_EC:es
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=es_EC.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apt.apt.conf.d.10periodic: 2016-01-26T23:01:12.880608

[fabianbur (fabianbur)]

Está funcionando como se espera desde haca algunos días, supongo que por las últimas actualizaciones en la versión estable de Ubuntu 16.04

is working as expected for some days, I guess for the latest updates to the stable release of Ubuntu 16.04

[Dagobert (dagobert57)]

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem as described above. Unfortunately, my system does not update automatically, the version of the package unattended-upgrades is 0.90.

Did you change something because you described that the package works for some days?

Thank you

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

according doc
After installing Ubuntu 16.04, apt update and apt upgrade will run on boot and every day at 6:00 and 18:00 automatically.
And only security upgrade will be applied.
Now in 'Software & Updates' I have 'Download and install...' for security updates but I see some security updates waiting for my confirm. see screenshot.
I attached also some log.
I opened also another bug for the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1666225

[Leopold Talirz (leopold-talirz)]

Assuming that this bug is indeed fixed in Ubuntu-16.04 with unattended-upgrades 0.90ubuntu0.9, could someone please post an origin pattern that works?

I am not able to get unattended-upgrades to upgrade any packages, neither using the syntax suggested here https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.html nor using "origin=Ubuntu,archive=${distro_codename},label=Ubuntu".
See the relevant output (redacted) below...

Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-104-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest:
    http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud

8 packages can be updated.
8 updates are security updates.

$ sudo unattended-upgrades -v -d
Initial blacklisted packages:
Initial whitelisted packages:
Starting unattended upgrades script
Allowed origins are: ['Ubuntu:xenial-security']
pkgs that look like they should be upgraded:
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
fetch.run() result: 0
blacklist: []
whitelist: []
No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals

$ sudo unattended-upgrades -d
Initial blacklisted packages:
Initial whitelisted packages:
Starting unattended upgrades script
Allowed origins are: ['origin=Ubuntu,archive=xenial-security,label=Ubuntu']
pkgs that look like they should be upgraded:
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
fetch.run() result: 0
blacklist: []
whitelist: []
No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals
ubuntu@dev-archive:~$ vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
ubuntu@dev-archive:~$ sudo vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades