Documentation change to the apt module to reference lock files (#73079)
This change references the suggested workaround in #25414. Co-authored-by: Alicia Cozine <879121+acozine@users.noreply.github.com>
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apt:
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autoremove: yes
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# Sometimes apt tasks fail because apt is locked by an autoupdate or by a race condition on a thread.
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# To check for a lock file before executing, and keep trying until the lock file is released:
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- name: Install packages only when the apt process is not locked
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apt:
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name: foo
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state: present
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register: apt_action
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retries: 100
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until: apt_action is success or ('Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation' not in apt_action.msg and '/var/lib/dpkg/lock' not in apt_action.msg)
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'''
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RETURN = '''
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