Docker installation dev env setup fails ("setup-dev-env.sh" script, Ansible doesn't ask password for sudo)

[EdoardoMolinatti]

Hi all,

I'm a new user of Autoware, we decided to use it for a European project about autonomous driving.

While following the Docker installation guide, after installing on Ubuntu 24.04 all the needed prerequisites (Docker, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, NVIDIA CUDA 12 compatible GPU Driver), I stumbled upon the following error (executing ./setup-dev-env.sh -y docker):

TASK [autoware.dev_env.cuda : Remove old /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda.list] ************************************************ fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

I suspect the problem is about the Ansible automation engine that is somehow NOT asking me for the root password, but I really don't know why this happens.
I attach to this question the full output of the ./setup-dev-env.sh -y docker command execution on my system ("docker_setup-dev-env.sh_out.log").

Please let me know if you have any information regarding this problem.
Thank you very much in advance.

Cheers

docker_setup-dev-env.sh_out.log

[EdoardoMolinatti]

If anyone encounters this problem, the solution is to gain root privileges for your user using sudo.
One of the quickest ways to do so is by executing sudo visudo and exiting from the opened nano editor with Ctrl + X.
The above error won't happen again once sudo has been executed on your current shell (you'll have root privileges for some time).