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the two packages "grub-efi-amd64-bin" and "grub-efi-amd64-signed" have been held back from being updated(upgraded) by apt for more than a week now maybe two weeks.

sometimes when the linux image gets updated, some packages get stuck on being held back and I have to force upgrade them. but this has never happened with a package as vital as my bootloader.

I am worried my computer won't turn on again if i force the upgrade.

what should I do? I am greatly worried.

EDIT: I am using kubuntu 22.04.01 this is the error text

The following packages have been kept back: 
grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed

the newer versions according to muon package manager, belong to a repo called jammy-updates versions for jammy and jammy-updates

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  • Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Can you edit and post the full error message which says grub has been held back? – Archisman Panigrahi Nov 06 '22 at 22:58
  • there edited it – Usermaxn Nov 06 '22 at 23:16
  • I had a problem with these packages on 10/27/22 on one of my 20.04 computers. It turned out to be because my EFI partition did not have the boot and esp flags set on it. It had the msftdata flag set on it. I have no idea why that never caused a problem before, the computer has had 20.04 installed on it for over a year. – Organic Marble Nov 06 '22 at 23:34
  • You can check your /var/log/apt for the term.log to see if you got any errors like I did when it tried to install the packages. The errors were confusing and unhelpful, like "The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present, or whose unique identifier has changed". – Organic Marble Nov 06 '22 at 23:44
  • I have seen this is several Jammy (upgraded) installs, but not sure of the cause. They all have correct flags on the EFI partition. – Moilleadóir Mar 20 '23 at 13:19

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