If we do an apt-mark hold grub first, we are left with the dilemma of how
to update grub without presenting a dialog. This is only happening on
Debian 11 boxes. We have tried using the :
environment:
DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
option, but it is not working.
On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 1:56:48 PM UTC-5 Todd Lewis wrote:
> Sounds like you'll need to `apt-mark hold grub` first, and handle updates
> to grub separately from the others.
> Also sounds like a bug in the grub package.
>
> On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 8:03:00 AM UTC-5 Kathy L wrote:
>
>> That's what we started to look at, but the issue becomes during a general
>> package update, you don't always know if grub will need to be updated. I'm
>> not even sure how you'd tell this in an apt-get update.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 7:46:45 AM UTC-5 Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to specify the install device on the command line / in
>>> the module so it doesn't prompt?
>>>
>>> Walter
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>>> On Feb 23, 2023, at 7:34 AM, Kathy L <lyon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We are updating packages via Ansible, and when grub needs to be run
>>> after the update, it fails on Debian 11. When I run the update command
>>> manually, grub displays a dialog box asking the user to select the grub
>>> install device (/dev/vda, /dev/vda2, /dev/vda3, etc.).
>>>
>>> We have our playbook running with an environment variable
>>> DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive.
>>>
>>> How do we fix this error in Ansible?
>>>
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