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I use Unattended Upgrades on my system, everything is working fine. I just notice something I don't understand, when I reboot some server I got stuck with the following message :

"A start job is running for Unattended Upgrades (5min 34s / not limit"

After some reboot this message disappear. Any idea on what is going wrong ? I checked the log but I don't find anything.

I am running Debian 8 up to date.

Hugo
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  • There is no daemon for unattended upgrades as far as I know. I want to reboot the server my self, so I disabled auto reboot. – Hugo Jul 04 '16 at 15:59

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I found a solution

when the system shuts down all services will be shut down with: /etc/init.d/name_of_service stop

but unattended-upgrades doesn't start at boot because reasons, and this confuses it at shutdown so to fix this open crontab as root (sudo crontab -e) and put in:

"@reboot /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades start"

This fixed it for me so i hope it will for all others as well

random person on the interweb
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Found a possible aswer in other thread.

I had a similar problem when shutting down. It showed "A start job is running for Unattended Upgrades (time / 15min 02s)"

I'm using Debian Stretch and found a file at

/lib/systemd/system/unattended-upgrades.service

This file has a line with:

TimeoutStartSec=900

I've changed that from 900 to 15 and the message now has a limit of 16 seconds. I don't know why it adds some time beyond this configuration.

Rui F Ribeiro
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OCarneiro
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type this in root terminal mode :

update-rc.d -f unattended-upgrades remove

systemctl stop unattended-upgrades

This for 1 session. Cardinal decision :

Remove package: Unattended Upgrades

Di Apost
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  • The OP wants to use Unattended Upgrades, and your proposal to fix the issue they've encountered is to remove the Unattended Upgrades facility? I don't think so. – Chris Davies Jan 18 '17 at 09:02