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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  unattended-upgrade-shutdown crashes with apt_pkg.Error: E:Syntax error
  /etc/apt/apt.conf:2: Extra junk at end of file

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Unattended-upgrades-shutdown service fails to start printing a crash
   * The fix would not warrant an SRU itself but it is part of the full backport SRU tracked in LP: #1702793.

  [Test Case]

   * Buggy version:
  root@x2:~#  echo extra-junk >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades 
  root@x2:~# /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown", line 119, in <module>
      apt_pkg.init_config()
  SystemError: E:Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades:67: Extra junk at end of file
  root@x2:~# 

   * Fixed version:
  # /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown ; echo $?
  1
  root@bb-lp-1806076:~# tail /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log 
  2018-11-30 18:05:56,515 ERROR - Apt returned an error, exiting
  2018-11-30 18:05:56,515 ERROR - error message: 'E:Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades:93: Extra junk at end of file'

  [Regression Potential]

   * U-u-s used to exit crashing, now it exits with an error code, just logging the error. There is little chance for regressing here, but users may have harder time to figure out why u-u-s exited, they need to check the log file.
   * There is also an enhancement request tracked to start u-u-s with a default config when parsing the config fails to be able to act on shutdown: 
  https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/issues/161

  [Original Bug Text]

  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding unattended-upgrades.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 0.98ubuntu1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b1c4cd0c858e1c3c6c86f938397e8d5d4208242b contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
  If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/.

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown", line 136, in <module>
      apt_pkg.init_config()
  apt_pkg.Error: E:Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf:2: Extra junk at end of file

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