Comment 1 for bug 2028124

Hi,

I can confirm the issue. We have several virtual machines with 22.04 (upgraded from 18.04) with the same issue on each qemu-guest-agent upgrade. In the follow example the service is stopped with he upgrade of the package at '2023-07-17 13:21:02'

root@vm1:~# grep -i qemu /var/log/dpkg.log
2023-07-03 20:58:18 upgrade qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-03 20:58:18 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27
2023-07-03 20:58:18 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27
2023-07-03 20:58:18 status half-installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27
2023-07-03 20:59:18 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-03 21:00:06 configure qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 <none>
2023-07-03 21:00:06 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-03 21:00:06 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-03 21:00:06 status installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-17 13:21:02 upgrade qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12
2023-07-17 13:21:02 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-17 13:21:02 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-17 13:21:02 status half-installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.11
2023-07-17 13:21:02 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12
2023-07-17 13:21:05 configure qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12 <none>
2023-07-17 13:21:05 status unpacked qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12
2023-07-17 13:21:05 status half-configured qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12
2023-07-17 13:21:05 status installed qemu-guest-agent:amd64 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.12

root@vm1:~# systemctl status qemu-guest-agent.service
○ qemu-guest-agent.service - QEMU Guest Agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/qemu-guest-agent.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2023-07-17 13:21:02 CEST; 2 days ago
Main PID: 763 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CPU: 58ms

Jul 11 05:42:42 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 12 05:44:36 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 13 04:43:06 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 14 05:57:13 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 15 05:46:10 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 16 06:22:59 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 17 05:40:00 vm1 qemu-ga[763]: info: guest-fsfreeze called
Jul 17 13:21:02 vm1 systemd[1]: Stopping QEMU Guest Agent...
Jul 17 13:21:02 vm1 systemd[1]: qemu-guest-agent.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 17 13:21:02 vm1 systemd[1]: Stopped QEMU Guest Agent.

Kind regards,
Achim