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grub held back from update for weeks

jp flag

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

us flag
Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Can you edit and post the full error message which says grub has been held back?
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jp flag
there edited it
Organic Marble avatar
us flag
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.
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us flag
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".
jo flag
I have seen this is several Jammy (upgraded) installs, but not sure of the cause. They all have correct flags on the EFI partition.
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