In Ubuntu cloud server images, apt update/upgrade is performed from different services, causing locking issues.
How do I find out what is exactly invoking apt-daily?
A ps aux --forest doesn't tell what's the parent:
root 0000 0.0 0.0 0000 000 ? Ss 00:00 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily install
root 0000 0.0 0.0 0000 0000 ? S 00:00 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily lock_is_held install
root 0000 0.0 00.0 000000 000000 ? Sl 00:00 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
In addition to the difficulty of tracking the parent/invoking process, what puzzles me is that this machine has all the seemingly relevant services disabled:
systemctl disable apt-daily-upgrade.timer
systemctl disable apt-daily.timer
systemctl disable cloud-init
systemctl disable cron
systemctl disable unattended-upgrades
I still get locking issues even rebooting.
How can I find out what's invoking apt-daily? I can change everything at my will for example, I can modify /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily to perform any operation.
Output of systemctl list-timers:
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Tue 2020-02-18 11:38:11 UTC 11min left n/a n/a motd-news.timer motd-news.service
Tue 2020-02-18 11:41:34 UTC 14min left n/a n/a systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
Wed 2020-02-19 01:08:41 UTC 13h left n/a n/a apt-daily.timer apt-daily.service
Wed 2020-02-19 06:13:55 UTC 18h left n/a n/a apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily-upgrade.service
Mon 2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC 5 days left n/a n/a fstrim.timer fstrim.service
5 timers listed.
Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.
