Ubuntu Unattended Upgrades Hangs With Too Many Routes
I recently discovered an issue on some of our routers running Ubuntu 16.04 where
they would have a stuck unattended-updates process consuming 100% of a CPU
core.
This issue only appears on routers wich are retrieving full route table from the internet, (at this time about 800k routes). I tracked the issue down to unattended-upgrades default setting of trying to determine if it’s running on a metered connection.
This function relies on pygobjects NetworkManger.GetDefault(), and this
function hangs indefinately when run on a machine with 800k routes.
A simple work around is to disable metered conection detecing in Apt.
// /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-unattended-upgrades
Unattended-Upgrade::Skip-Updates-On-Metered-Connections "false";
This bug has been reported to Ubuntu and is being tracked here.