On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 09:35:38PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > grub-pc and grub are supposed to conflict; there was a window during > which they didn't, at which point grub seems to have gotten installed on > your system, and now apt is removing the wrong one on upgrade. Can we > see the older apt logs, to see why grub got pulled in to begin with? > (You don't have startupmanager installed, do you?)
Thinking about it further, I don't think I ever transitioned this system to grub2, and it had been happily using grub. The setup I ended up with after the upgrade was this: ii grub 0.97-29ubuntu5 GRand Unified Bootloader ii grub-common 1.97~beta4-1ub GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common with /usr/sbin/update-grub missing. Here's my best guess at what happened: 1. grub/grub-common were installed, with /usr/sbin/update-grub present 2. Something caused grub-pc to be installed while it did not conflict with grub, and grub-pc replaced /usr/sbin/update-grub (grub-pc Replaces: grub) 3. /usr/sbin/update-grub from grub-pc was being used for a while, updating grub.cfg and not menu.lst (but I didn't notice because I didn't reboot for a while) 4. The most recent upgrade opted to remove grub-pc in favour of keeping grub 5. /usr/sbin/update-grub was removed along with grub-pc, leaving nothing in its place -- - mdz ** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - grub-pc removed, update-grub fails + Upgrade removed grub-pc, left grub with no /usr/sbin/update-grub -- Upgrade removed grub-pc, left grub with no /usr/sbin/update-grub https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455619 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
