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Intel NUC unattended-upgrades battery power error

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I have an Intel NUC running Ubuntu 21.10 server. When testing my unattended-upgrades setup (via sudo unattended-upgrades --dry-run --debug) I am receiving the following error:

System is on battery power, stopping

The NUC doesn't have a battery so there appears to be a system configuration error. After repeated searches I haven't found any reports of similar problems. Does anyone have an idea of what the issue is and how to fix it?

EDIT: Here is the output of the on_ac_power script referenced below. I was unable to determine what is causing it to return false when the NUC is certainly on AC power:

deploy@deploy-nuc:~▶ ./on_ac_power.sh
+ OFF_LINE_P=no
+ [ -d /sys/class/power_supply/ ]
+ test -d /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001
+ test -r /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001/type
+ cat /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001/type
+ type=USB
+ [ -r /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001/online ]
+ cat /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001/online
+ online=0
+ [ 0 = 1 ]
+ [ 0 = 0 ]
+ OFF_LINE_P=yes
+ test -d /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002
+ test -r /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002/type
+ cat /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002/type
+ type=USB
+ [ -r /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002/online ]
+ cat /sys/class/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002/online
+ online=0
+ [ 0 = 1 ]
+ [ 0 = 0 ]
+ OFF_LINE_P=yes
+ [ yes = yes ]
+ exit 1
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I posted the output of the `on_ac_power` script above in case anyone can help determine why it is returning `1` for false.
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I don't know why your system believes it is on battery, but it looks like unattended-upgrades calls the external command on_ac_power to determine if on battery.

The command on_ac_power is just a fairly basic shell script, so you might be able to walk through it and figure out why it is returning the wrong value.

As a workaround, you can add to your apt configuration this setting that will tell unattended-upgrades to continue when on battery.

Unattended-Upgrade::OnlyOnACPower "false";
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The apt configuration successfully enabled `unattended-upgrades` to work. The script is outputting false for some reason although I wasn't able to understand why.
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