Ubuntu 25.10's Rust-based coreutils had a bug preventing automatic updates from working. Here's what happened, why it matters, and how it was resolved.
just run: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to fix the issue.
Yeah, reading through some of the threads, seems like they didn’t support a flag, failed silently, and had no test coverage for that (they do now). Non-LTS version or no, having these tools “in production” seems premature on Canonical’s part.
It’s not a Rust bug, it was a logic bug in uutils.
Yeah, reading through some of the threads, seems like they didn’t support a flag, failed silently, and had no test coverage for that (they do now). Non-LTS version or no, having these tools “in production” seems premature on Canonical’s part.