Small thing but it got me last week. I relay my stream to twitch through nginx-rtmp on a cheap VPS, and one morning unattended-upgrades pulled a new systemd, needrestart restarted nginx (and postgres, and everything else) and the stream dropped. OBS reconnected fast but twitch counted it as two streams.

default timer is 06:00 UTC + up to 1h random, which is exactly when I stream lol. moved it with a drop-in:

# systemctl edit apt-daily-upgrade.timer
[Timer]
OnCalendar=
OnCalendar=*-*-* 13:45:00 UTC
RandomizedDelaySec=15m

the empty OnCalendar= matters, without it you just add a second time and keep the old one.

anyone else got bitten by this?

  • Guiorgy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    I mean, unattended upgrades has it’s own config file where you can specify when to schedule a reboot (when needed), which you’d usually do in off-hours like 2 AM your local time, so changing the Systemd unit activation time seems like the wrong fix.

    Edit: Nevermind, your issue was that the daemons were being rebooted, not the whole system, if I understood that correctly

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I’ve been burnt by this, my nginx lxc on proxmox was crashing at about 6:30 every morning for a week. Turns out auto update and debsecure was running on it and using all the 512mb of memory and the lxc would get killed by the host, so removed both as I update Tuesday evenings anyway

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
    211·
    22 hours ago

    Unattended upgrade?

    Why? Specially on critical systems?

    If you do such upgrades, schedule for a time you don’t use the system at very least …

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      22 hours ago

      There’s few apps I can think of that fail when the service restarts. At worst Jellyfin and Home Asssistant take a minute or so to be available again. The former usually does not pose a problem because of client side caching while streaming. HA would be quite annoying, altough lights etc would keep their current state so it’s unlikely I’d even notice.

      That said I don’t use unattended upgrades.