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Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed
Date 2023-10-09 02:40 +0200
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On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 05:14:52PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> After the reboot, which went well, I noticed that the new kernel version was
> "held back".  An explicit install of the new kernel seemed to succeed, and
> everything seems to work ok now.

Note the differences among "apt upgrade", "apt-get upgrade",
"apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs" and "apt-get dist-upgrade.

"apt-get upgrade" will not install new packages.

"apt upgrade" will.

"apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs" also will.

"apt-get dist-upgrade" will install new packages, and potentially
remove packages, if the situation requires it.  For a simple point
release, it should be vanishingly rare that a package would be
removed, so this is hardly ever needed.  But "dist-" is a lot easier to
type and to remember than "--with-new-pkgs", so people tend to use it
as a synonym.

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Unattended upgrade of grub failed Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-10-08 11:20 +0200
  Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-08 11:30 +0200
    Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-10-08 12:10 +0200
      Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-10-08 13:40 +0200
        Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-08 14:30 +0200
        Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-10-08 19:20 +0200
    Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-10-08 17:20 +0200
      Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-09 02:40 +0200
  Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-08 11:40 +0200
    Re: Unattended upgrade of grub failed "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-08 14:40 +0200

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