Re: Ubuntu noninteractive aptitude mysql install
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0700, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman@gmail.com> was heard to say:
>> When scripting an aptitude install of mysql on ubuntu, how can I avoid
>> blocking at aptitude's interactive root password prompt?
>
> aptitude doesn't prompt for a root password at the command line.
>
>> I tried the following, but it doesn't work on when I run it on a clean
>> EC2 image:
>>
>> http://github.com/thewoolleyman/rails/blob/master/ci/setup_rails_dependencies.rb#L26
>>
>> Maddeningly, it works fine when I immediately do the same thing again.
>
> You're becoming root like this:
>
> $ run "sudo su -c 'echo \"#{pw_file}\" > /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat'"
>
> It sounds like you're getting a prompt from sudo?
No, that's not it - I have nopasswd set in sudoers. All other
commands I run via sudo run fine. It is just the mysql server install
that hangs.
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