This bug has reappeared in the most-recent EBS backed ubuntu-xenial AMI in AWS:
while creating images, I'm running: `sudo apt-get -y upgrade` to which I get prompted with: ``` 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: A new version of /boot/grub/menu.lst is available%!(PACKER_COMMA) but the version installed 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: currently has been locally modified. 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 1. install the package maintainer's version 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 2. keep the local version currently installed 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 3. show the differences between the versions 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 4. show a side-by-side difference between the versions 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 5. show a 3-way difference between available versions 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 6. do a 3-way merge between available versions (experimental) 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: 7. start a new shell to examine the situation 1513162160,,ui,message, amazon-ebs: ``` The solution is: `sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=\"--force-confdef\" -o Dpkg::Options::=\"--force-confold\" upgrade"` Which was the initial fix proposed for this bug at: https://askubuntu.com/questions/146921/how-do-i-apt-get-y-dist-upgrade-without-a-grub-config-prompt/147079#147079 back in 2012 Interesting, how this reappeared in 2017. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009294 Title: Grub update breaks automated dist-upgrade scripts on AMI images To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1009294/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
