Hi,

I have issue on armbian regarding unattended upgrades.

At first, I tried to set it via armbian-config, but nothing happened. The gui seems to be wrong: 

 

then I checked /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02-armbian-periodic

// Enable the update/upgrade script (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::Enable "0";

// Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "21";

// Do "apt-get upgrade --download-only" every n-days (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";

// Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script
// every n-days (0=disabled)
// Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write
// a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "7";

// Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "120";

// Define basic patterns
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
        "origin=${distro_id},codename=${distro_codename}";
        "origin=Armbian";
};

 

And manually set APT::Periodic::Enable "1";
But after mornings reboot, I see the configuration is back to 0.

Few info from /etc/armbian-release (I'm running OPI 5 Ultra, but I don't feel this is something hw specific):

# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
BOARD=orangepi5-ultra
BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi 5 Ultra"
BOARDFAMILY=rockchip-rk3588
BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=http://172.17.0.1:8000/armbian/build
BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=ddae28804
LINUXFAMILY=rk35xx
ARCH=arm64
BOOT_SOC=rk3588
IMAGE_TYPE=nightly
BOARD_TYPE=csc
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image
KERNEL_TARGET=vendor,current,edge
KERNEL_TEST_TARGET=vendor,current,edge
FORCE_BOOTSCRIPT_UPDATE=
FORCE_UBOOT_UPDATE=
OVERLAY_DIR="/boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay"
VENDOR="Armbian"
VENDORCOLOR="247;16;0"
VENDORDOCS="https://docs.armbian.com"
VENDORURL="https://www.armbian.com/"
VENDORSUPPORT="https://forum.armbian.com"
VENDORBUGS="https://www.armbian.com/bugs"
BOOTSCRIPT_FORCE_UPDATE="no"
BOOTSCRIPT_DST="boot.cmd"
VERSION=26.11.0-trunk.90
REVISION=26.11.0-trunk.90
BRANCH=vendor

My question is, how to enable it correctly on armbian?

Thanks in advance
 

 

It was broken - fix is coming up shortly:
https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/10985

https://github.com/armbian/configng/pull/1059

Thanks. And what about the GUI I sent in picture. There are no checkboxes seen, until I press space to switch changes and also the checkbox is then visible on other line, then it should be. 
Should i set some variables before I start armbian-config? Or this will be fixed with that changes you posted too?

On 10/13/2026 at 4:31 PM, KSJ said:

And what about the GUI I sent in picture. There are no checkboxes seen, until I press space to switch changes and also the checkbox is then visible on other line, then it should be.

Another, more weird bug. Also fixed: https://github.com/armbian/configng/pull/1063

Thanks, gui seems ok.

I'm little bit confised regarding the configs. There are these configs now:
 

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# ls -1
01autoremove
02-armbian-compress-indexes
02-armbian-periodic
02-armbian-postupdate
20auto-upgrades
50unattended-upgrades
70debconf
71-armbian-no-recommends
81-armbian-no-languages

 

In 02-armbian-periodic it looks the same (I tried to disable autoupdate via armbian-config, enable it again and then change configuration)

// Enable the update/upgrade script (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::Enable "0";

// Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "21";

// Do "apt-get upgrade --download-only" every n-days (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";

// Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script
// every n-days (0=disabled)
// Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write
// a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "7";

// Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable)
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "120";

// Define basic patterns
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
        "origin=${distro_id},codename=${distro_codename}";
        "origin=Armbian";
};

So it is probably not used anymore

 

all settings seems to be now in 20auto-upgrades

APT::Periodic::Enable "1";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

 

I'm thinking, if I should remove some of these configs.

On 10/15/2026 at 3:07 PM, KSJ said:

I'm thinking, if I should remove some of these configs.

If it works as intended, don't.

yes, it seems packages are updated and server is rebooted. So solution was fixing the bugs. Thanks a lot.