Don't run /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-hwe-eol in containers

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 3.192.27

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update-notifier (3.192.27) focal; urgency=medium

  * Notify user about stale updates information in motd (LP: #1842159)
  * Make /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available world-readable
    (LP: #1844704)
  * data/update-motd-hwe-eol: Run as a regular user without printing errors
    (LP: #185527)
  * data/update-motd-hwe-eol: Shortcut script when running in a container.
    There is no point in checking the HWE stack in a container since upgrading
    it would not affect the host system. (LP: #1855290)
  * data/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot: Shortcut script when running it as
    a regular user (LP: #185527)

 -- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:52 +0100

Hello Balint, or anyone else affected,

Accepted update-notifier into eoan-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/3.192.26.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-eoan to verification-done-eoan. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-eoan. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

root@ee-motd-verify:~# dpkg -l update-notifier-common | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-======================-============-============-=======================================================
ii update-notifier-common 3.192.26.1 all Files shared between update-notifier and other packages
root@ee-motd-verify:~# ls -alh /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Dec 16 14:13 /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available
root@ee-motd-verify:~# bash -x /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-hwe-eol
+ '[' '' = --force ']'
+ type systemd-detect-virt
+ systemd-detect-virt -q -c
+ exit
root@ee-motd-verify:~# systemd-detect-virt
lxc

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ubuntu@ee1:~$ sudo apt install update-notifier-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  update-notifier-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
Need to get 162 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-proposed/main amd64 update-notifier-common all 3.192.26.1 [162 kB]
Fetched 162 kB in 0s (516 kB/s)

(Reading database ... 61893 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../update-notifier-common_3.192.26.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking update-notifier-common (3.192.26.1) over (3.192.26) ...
Setting up update-notifier-common (3.192.26.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/update-motd.d/90-updates-available ...
ubuntu@ee1:~$ time /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-hwe-eol

real 0m0.205s
user 0m0.161s
sys 0m0.040s
ubuntu@ee1:~$ systemd-detect-virt
kvm

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 3.192.26.1

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update-notifier (3.192.26.1) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Notify user about stale updates information in motd (LP: #1842159)
  * Make /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available world-readable
    (LP: #1844704)
  * data/update-motd-hwe-eol: Run as a regular user without printing errors
    (LP: #1855271)
  * data/update-motd-hwe-eol: Shortcut script when running in a container.
    There is no point in checking the HWE stack in a container since upgrading
    it would not affect the host system. (LP: #1855290)
  * data/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot: Shortcut script when running it as
    a regular user (LP: #1855271)

 -- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:52 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for update-notifier has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.