I updated the bug description to remove a bogus reason I'd like to see updated AMIs. There is no bug in the grub-pc package update code; the mistake was mine.
For anybody who saw the original report, I was simply missing the -E option to pass environment variables to a sudo command: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive sudo apt-get update sudo -E apt-get upgrade -y That said, I still think it's a great idea to publish updated AMIs. ** Description changed: - There is no strict Ubuntu package for this request, but the ubuntu-on- - ec2 team (smoser) should see it because of the ec2-images tag. - Please publish current, updated Ubuntu AMIs on Amazon EC2 for 9.10 Karmic and 8.04 Hardy. According to the draft proposal on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/RefreshPolicy "New AMIs will be published for stable releases based on" a few conditions including things like time it takes to perform upgrades and other issues. - My current request to get updated AMIs is prompted because of an - ugliness which occurs when performing upgrades on the current Karmic - AMIs. An update to the package "grub-pc" forces the user to read and - respond to two manual prompts, even if attempts are made to have the - upgrade accept all defaults. + It's been a while since the EC2 AMIs were updated and releasing new one + will speed up instance startups. - For example, running - ami-1515f67c - ubuntu-images-us/ubuntu-karmic-9.10-i386-server-20091027.1.manifest.xml - the following commands - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive - sudo apt-get update - sudo apt-get upgrade -y - result in the graphical grub-pc config prompts attached to this bug. - - This is annoying and interrupts some semi-automated instance setup code - I run. - - I suppose this might be submitted separately as a bug report against - grub-pc, but it's been a while since the EC2 AMIs were updated and - releasing new ones should solve this problem and generally speed up - instance startups. - - For the record, apt-get update/upgrade currently takes over a minute on - the above AMI with an m1.small instance. - - For reference: Users complaining about this problem: - http://alestic.com/2009/11/ec2-karmic-desktop#comment-203 + An apt-get update/upgrade currently takes over a minute on the below AMI + with an m1.small instance. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jan 6 01:52:27 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Ec2AMI: ami-1515f67c Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-us/ubuntu-karmic-9.10-i386-server-20091027.1.manifest.xml Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1a Ec2InstanceType: m1.small Ec2Kernel: aki-5f15f636 Ec2Ramdisk: ari-0915f660 Package: ec2-init 0.4.999-0ubuntu7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.31-302.7-ec2 SourcePackage: ec2-init Tags: ec2-images Uname: Linux 2.6.31-302-ec2 i686 -- Release updated official Ubuntu EC2 AMIs for Karmic, Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503649 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
