Bug#470400: marked as done (grub-pc: doesn't cleanly uninstall)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:59:24 -0700 

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Package: grub-pc
Severity: normal

Hi,

I tried grub-pc and decided to go back to grub-legacy. However, after
purging all grub 2 related packages, my /boot/grub is still full of
stuff:

$ ls -al /boot/grub/
total 2,2M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K 10. Mär 23:17 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3,0K  2. Mär 22:28 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,2K 10. Mär 23:15 acorn.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,7K 10. Mär 23:15 affs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:15 amiga.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K 10. Mär 23:15 aout.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,6K 10. Mär 23:15 apple.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,5K 10. Mär 23:15 ata.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,0K 10. Mär 23:15 biosdisk.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:15 bitmap.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K 10. Mär 23:15 blocklist.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 10. Mär 23:15 boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,3K 10. Mär 23:15 boot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,5K 10. Mär 23:15 _bsd.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,2K 10. Mär 23:15 bsd.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,9K 10. Mär 23:15 cat.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 10. Mär 23:15 cdboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,3K 10. Mär 23:15 _chain.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,6K 10. Mär 23:15 chain.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K 10. Mär 23:15 cmp.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  713 10. Mär 23:15 command.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,8K 10. Mär 23:15 configfile.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,0K 10. Mär 23:15 cpio.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5K 10. Mär 23:15 cpuid.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  83K 10. Mär 23:11 debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    3 30. Jan 19:09 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   15 10. Mär 23:11 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   30 14. Jun 2007  device.map~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 10. Mär 23:15 diskboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,5K 14. Jun 2007  e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,9K 10. Mär 23:15 echo.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,4K 10. Mär 23:15 elf.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,1K 10. Mär 23:15 ext2.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,8K 10. Mär 23:15 fat.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,3K 14. Jun 2007  fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:15 font.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:15 fshelp.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   79 10. Mär 23:15 fs.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,3K 10. Mär 23:15 gfxterm.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,8K 10. Mär 23:15 gpt.mod
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:17 grub.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,1K 10. Mär 23:15 gzio.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5K 10. Mär 23:15 halt.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,2K 10. Mär 23:15 hello.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,9K 10. Mär 23:15 help.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:15 hexdump.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,3K 10. Mär 23:15 hfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,1K 10. Mär 23:15 hfsplus.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,4K 10. Mär 23:15 iso9660.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,0K 10. Mär 23:15 jfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,0K 14. Jun 2007  jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,0K 10. Mär 23:15 jpeg.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  30K 10. Mär 23:15 kernel.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,7K 10. Mär 23:15 _linux.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5K 10. Mär 23:15 linux.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,0K 10. Mär 23:15 lnxboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,1K 10. Mär 23:15 loopback.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,7K 10. Mär 23:15 ls.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,0K 10. Mär 23:15 lspci.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,9K 10. Mär 23:15 lvm.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K 10. Mär 23:15 memdisk.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,5K  2. Mär 22:28 menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,4K  2. Mär 22:28 menu.lst~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,3K 10. Mär 23:15 minix.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,7K 14. Jun 2007  minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  978 10. Mär 23:15 moddep.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K 10. Mär 23:15 _multiboot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,6K 10. Mär 23:15 multiboot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40K 10. Mär 23:15 normal.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,3K 10. Mär 23:15 ntfscomp.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,2K 10. Mär 23:15 ntfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  852 10. Mär 23:15 pci.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,2K 10. Mär 23:15 pc.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K 10. Mär 23:15 play.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,0K 10. Mär 23:15 png.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,0K 10. Mär 23:15 pxeboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,0K 10. Mär 23:15 raid.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,6K 10. Mär 23:15 read.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,2K 10. Mär 23:15 reboot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,3K 10. Mär 23:15 reiserfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,1K 14. Jun 2007  reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,0K 10. Mär 23:15 search.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,5K 10. Mär 23:15 serial.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,3K 10. Mär 23:15 sfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,0K 10. Mär 23:15 sleep.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512 14. Jun 2007  stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106K 25. Okt 11:56 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,5K 10. Mär 23:15 sun.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,8K 10. Mär 23:15 terminal.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,8K 10. Mär 23:15 terminfo.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,6K 10. Mär 23:15 test.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,8K 10. Mär 23:15 tga.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,8K 10. Mär 23:15 udf.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,0K 10. Mär 23:15 ufs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5M 10. Mär 23:11 unicode.pff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K 10. Mär 23:15 vbeinfo.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14K 10. Mär 23:15 vbe.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,0K 10. Mär 23:15 vbetest.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,8K 10. Mär 23:15 vga.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,0K 10. Mär 23:15 video.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,7K 10. Mär 23:15 videotest.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,3K 10. Mär 23:15 xfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,7K 14. Jun 2007  xfs_stage1_5

$ dpkg --list '*grub*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  grub           0.97-32        GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
pn  grub-common    <none>         (no description available)
pn  grub-disk      <none>         (no description available)
ii  grub-doc       0.97-32        Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader (
un  grub-efi       <none>         (no description available)
un  grub-ieee1275  <none>         (no description available)
ii  grub-legacy-do 0.97-32        Documentation for GRUB Legacy
un  grub-linuxbios <none>         (no description available)
pn  grub-pc        <none>         (no description available)
pn  grub-rescue-pc <none>         (no description available)
un  grub2          <none>         (no description available)
$

Either I am doing something wrong, or the package of grub-pc is badly
broken. Shouldn't it vanish completely upon purge?

Greetings
Marc

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:31:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> Either I am doing something wrong, or the package of grub-pc is badly
> broken. Shouldn't it vanish completely upon purge?

No, not really.  Maintainer scripts can't handle /boot as they please.  Adding
new files without overwriting anything (like postinst does) is mostly OK, but
removing them is never a good idea.  It could break boot!  We can't afford to
assume this risk.

-- 
Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)

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