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I have been periodically (maybe daily?) been getting this error message since I virtualized my Ubuntu 22.04 partition.

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I don't want to re-launch the application (so I have to take special care to uncheck this every time), I don't know why it's even trying to do a full upgrade without my permission, and I would like to disable it from making this attempt! If I ignore the dialog another one pops up on top of it in another day or so, so this doesn't prevent it from running again either.

When I go to "Software and Updates" it says (under the "Updates" tab) that I am "subscribed" to "Security Updates Only" but does not provide any way to subscribe to less than that. It is already set to automatically check for updates "Never". I also changed "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version" to "Never" but a day or two later and this crash report pops up again!

Update: Here is the output of the commands requested in the comments.

$ grep "Prompt" /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
Prompt=never
$ do-release-upgrade -c
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
In /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades Prompt 
is set to never so upgrading is not possible.
$ dpkg -s unattended-upgrades | grep "Status"
Status: install ok installed

Update: Here is some of the output of the file left in /var/crash:

ProblemType: Crash
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
ExecutablePath: /usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.10
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py -u 168 -s 166 -p /usr/bin/lubuntu-upgrader

Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py", line 266, in <module>
     main(sys.argv, int(options.upgrades), int(options.security_upgrades),
   File "/usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py", line 231, in main
     app = App(upgrades, security_upgrades, reboot_required, upg_path, args)
   File "/usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py", line 223, in init
     self.dialog = Dialog(upgrades, security_upgrades, reboot_required,
   File "/usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py", line 59, in init
     self.initUI()
   File "/usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-notifier.py", line 132, in initUI
     td_child = QTreeWidgetItem(p.name)
 TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
   QTreeWidgetItem(type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(Iterable[str], type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidget, type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidget, Iterable[str], type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidget, QTreeWidgetItem, type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidgetItem, type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidgetItem, Iterable[str], type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidgetItem, QTreeWidgetItem, type: int = QTreeWidgetItem.Type): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
   QTreeWidgetItem(QTreeWidgetItem): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
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Michael
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It looks like the unattended-upgrades package is the root cause of that error message. You can disable unattended-upgrades a few different ways, while still allowing for manual updates when you are ready. Any one of the following methods should do the trick:

1. Change unattended-upgrades Configuration

sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

Change the 1 to 0 for each option (APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists and APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade)

2. Stop and Disable unattended-upgrades Service

sudo systemctl stop unattended-upgrades
sudo systemctl disable unattended-upgrades

Verify the service is no longer running with:

systemctl status unattended-upgrades | grep "Active"

3. Uninstall unattended-upgrades Package

sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades
DynamicBits
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