Bionic verification success results here: --- BEGIN bionic update-notifier testing --- Launch cloud-init with ppa:ua-client/proposed enabled Creating test-sru-bionic Starting test-sru-bionic --- Wait for cloud-init to finish ...................................................................................................................................... status: done time: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:49:05 +0000 detail: DataSourceNoCloud [seed=/var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud-net][dsmode=net] --- Attach Ubuntu-Advantage, enabling services Enabling default service esm-infra Updating package lists ESM Infra enabled A reboot is required to complete install This machine is now attached to '' SERVICE ENTITLED STATUS DESCRIPTION esm-infra yes enabled UA Infra: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) livepatch yes n/a Canonical Livepatch service Enable services with: ua enable Account: Subscription: -- Downgrading package to stable ubuntu release libkrad0=1.16-2build1 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfreetype6 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: libverto-libevent1 libverto1 The following NEW packages will be installed: libkrad0 libverto-libevent1 libverto1 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.3 kB of archives. After this operation, 214 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 libverto-libevent1 amd64 0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3 [5796 B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 libverto1 amd64 0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3 [9090 B] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 libkrad0 amd64 1.16-2build1 [21.4 kB] Fetched 36.3 kB in 1s (43.7 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libverto-libevent1:amd64. (Reading database ... 28800 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libverto-libevent1_0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libverto-libevent1:amd64 (0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3) ... Selecting previously unselected package libverto1:amd64. Preparing to unpack .../libverto1_0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libverto1:amd64 (0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3) ... Selecting previously unselected package libkrad0:amd64. Preparing to unpack .../libkrad0_1.16-2build1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libkrad0:amd64 (1.16-2build1) ... Setting up libverto-libevent1:amd64 (0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3) ... Setting up libverto1:amd64 (0.2.4-2.1ubuntu3) ... Setting up libkrad0:amd64 (1.16-2build1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1.4) ... update-notifier 1 package can be updated. 1 update is a security update. SUCCESS: did not find UA Infra: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) is enabled SUCCESS: found 1 update is a security update security updates pre-upgrade --- Upgrade update-notifier from -proposed update-notifier-common Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 update-notifier-common all 3.192.1.9 [132 kB] dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No such file or directory Preparing to unpack .../update-notifier-common_3.192.1.9_all.deb ... Unpacking update-notifier-common (3.192.1.9) over (3.192.1.7) ... Setting up update-notifier-common (3.192.1.9) ... update-notifier SUCCESS: found UA Infra: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) is enabled --- Expect non-zero upgradable packages for MOTD from apt_check AFTER upgrade UA Infra: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) is enabled. 15 packages can be updated. 1 of these updates is a security update. To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable 1 of these updates is a security update. SUCCESS: found 1 ESM security updates pre-upgrade