1.5.4: apt dist-upgrade fails with "No such file or directory"

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I am trying to upgrade all our (ubuntu) servers with the following playbook:

  • hosts: all
    serial: 2

tasks:

  • name: apt-get update
    apt: update_cache=yes

  • name: apt-get dist-upgrade
    apt: upgrade=dist dpkg_options=‘force-confold,force-confdef’

  • name: reboot
    command: ‘/sbin/reboot’

This fails like so:

TASK: [apt-get dist-upgrade] **************************************************
<10.0.20.4> REMOTE_MODULE apt upgrade=dist dpkg_options=‘force-confold,force-confdef’
<10.0.20.67> REMOTE_MODULE apt upgrade=dist dpkg_options=‘force-confold,force-confdef’
failed: [10.0.20.4] => {“cmd”: [“DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive”, “DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical”, “/usr/bin/apt-get”, “-y”, “-o”, “Dpkg::Options::=–force-confold”, “-o”, “Dpkg::Options::=–force-confdef”, “dist-upgrade”], “failed”: true, “rc”: 2}
msg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

The command runs fine if I run it as root on the machine itself:

‘DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical /usr/bin/apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=–force-confold -o Dpkg::Options::=–force-confdef dist-upgrade’

Using that command line in a ansible ‘command’ or ‘shell’ statement instead of the apt command produces exactly the same error.

Any ideas?

cheers
Jens-Christian

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For starters, what version of Ansible is this?

Thanks!

3

as stated in the subject: It is ansible 1.5.4

cheers
jc

4

Are you using any of the appropriate flags for sudo?

I’m wondering because it almost sounds like a permissions issue and you say it runs when you run it as root…

What command line are you using to run the actual playbook?

Adam

5

Found it.

This command wasn’t being run through the shell, on line 277 is the main problem.

We could pass “use_unsafe_shell=True” here, but that’s not ideal. Better would be to set the various environment options directly and then call the command not using the shell.

Please make sure there is a github ticket on this one, the fix is pretty straightforward and I’d like to get this included in our upcoming 1.6, which is due in a couple of weeks.

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note: I’ll file the ticket on this one, don’t want it lost :slight_smile:

7

Could you do an md5sum on the module? It should be located at /usr/share/ansible/packaging/apt and should match the following:

$ md5sum /usr/share/ansible/packaging/apt
7b3796da213ba4a5affab8413e7579d2 /usr/share/ansible/packaging/apt

You might also want to grab the module for that release from https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.4/library/packaging/apt and diff them if the MD5’s don’t match.

The reason I ask is because the command shown in your output has leading environment variables set (ie. DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive), but as far as I can tell from the code in 1.5.4 that had been removed by that point.

Thanks!