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Asked: 2019-11-10 18:52:37 +0800 CST

Bogus message from automatic updates

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When I ssh into my Ubuntu 18.04 box I get the motd

1 update could not be installed automatically

Which goes on to tell me to check the unattended-upgrades log.

The log shows no problems. How can I clear this bogus message?

updates unattended-upgrades

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    OK, it wasn't bogus.

    Turns out the script

    /etc/update-motd.d/92-unattended-upgrades

    produces this message at login.

    This script references

    /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/update-motd-unattended-upgrades

    which in turn looks at the contents of

    /var/lib/unattended-upgrades/kept-back

    In my case this last file was non-blank because unattended-upgrades tried to update vino, which I have pinned to an old version on this Lubuntu box, because the latest version removes the options dialog.

    Deleting /var/lib/unattended-upgrades/kept-back made the message go away - but only till the next time unattended-upgrades ran.

    But there was nothing in the logs that it told me to reference about it!!

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