What happened:

setting shutdownGracePeriod: "60s" and shutdownGracePeriodCriticalPods: "30s" in /etc/kubernetes/kubelet-config.yaml results in /var/log/kubelet.log messages like:
Jun 2 19:41:48 test-c2rtl5620bsn3hi5voeg-kublettest1-default-0000042f kubelet.service[7402]: E0602 19:41:48.214662 7402 kubelet.go:1404] "Failed to start node shutdown manager" err="node shutdown manager was unable to update logind InhibitDelayMaxSec to 1m0s (ShutdownGracePeriod), current value of InhibitDelayMaxSec (30s) is less than requested ShutdownGracePeriod"

What you expected to happen:

I expected the graceful node shutdown configuration settings to take precedence.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

configure graceful node shutdown (shutdownGracePeriod: "60s" and shutdownGracePeriodCriticalPods: "30s" ) on a node with the unattended-upgrades package installed

check the log for messages indicating "node shutdown manager was unable to update logind InhibitDelayMaxSec ..."

Anything else we need to know?:

unattended-upgrades writes /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/unattended-upgrades-logind-maxdelay.conf containing InhibitDelayMaxSec=30

the Kubernetes code writes /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/99-kubelet.conf which contains a definition of InhibitDelayMaxSec ultimately based on the values in /etc/kubernetes/kubelet-config.yaml

/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/unattended-upgrades-logind-maxdelay.conf has a higher precedence than /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/99-kubelet.conf so the InhibitDelayMaxSec value in /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/unattended-upgrades-logind-maxdelay.conf is used.

for any value other than 30 seconds ... the Kubernetes implementation of GracefulNodeShutdown is incompatible with the unattended-upgrades package

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version):
  kubectl version
  Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.1+IKS", GitCommit:"04e16b9d6c7af21e462f7ac675c34b667cd6149e", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-05-24T08:21:44Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
  Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.1+IKS", GitCommit:"04e16b9d6c7af21e462f7ac675c34b667cd6149e", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-05-24T08:19:13Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Cloud provider or hardware configuration:
  IBM Cloud

• OS (e.g: cat /etc/os-release):
  cat /etc/os-release
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION="16.04.7 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS"
  VERSION_ID="16.04"
  HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
  SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
  VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
  UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
  uname -a
  Linux test-c2v7ef52068f5kndi8s0-testcluster-default-000002f4.iks.ibm 4.4.0-210-generic Less verbose logging for "normal" things. #242-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:57:56 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Install tools:

• Network plugin and version (if this is a network-related bug):

• Others: