Comment 3 for bug 1855290

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