Error installing Ubuntu security updates via Ansible

Asked Jun 14 '19 at 19:21

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I've been using ansible-django-stack for some time now and recently an error has been cropping up with installing security updates on Ubuntu servers (16.04 and 18.04 both have the same issue).

16.04:

SystemError: E:The value 'xenial-security' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

18.04:

SystemError: E:The value 'xenial-security' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

The task in the playbook is as follows:

- name: Install security updates
  apt: default_release={{ ansible_distribution_release }}-security
       update_cache=true
       upgrade=dist

What happens is that the first time I run the playbook the installation goes fine. Subsequently, however, this error occurs. What would I adjust to make my security updates run as expected when running the playbook?

asked Jun 14 '19 at 19:21

YPCrumble

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Try removing suffix `-security` from the release name. – AlexD Jun 14 '19 at 20:01
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Are you able `apt-get dist-upgrade` from the command-line? – Vladimir Botka Jun 14 '19 at 20:37
What are your apt sources? – Michael Hampton Jun 14 '19 at 22:16
@AlexD what I tried based on your comment is to just remove the `default_release` argument and the task worked. Does that make sense? `apt` should know to use the correct version of Ubuntu. – YPCrumble Jun 15 '19 at 13:25
@YPCrumble if you have a line with `xenial-security` in your /etc/apt/sources then it should work without default_release – AlexD Jun 15 '19 at 13:52

Error installing Ubuntu security updates via Ansible

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