Okay, try this: apt-get download grub-pc dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:36 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700 > Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > >wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 > >> Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo: > >> > >> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > >> >wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 > >> >> Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo: > >> >> > >> >> >Step 1: > >> >> > > >> >> > dpkg -l grub-pc > >> >> > > >> >> >which should give you the partially installed version you've > >> >> >got. > >> >> > >> >> The results are not at all clear: > >> >> dpkg -l grub-pc > >> >> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > >> >> |Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > >> >> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ > >> >> Name Version Architecture Description > >> >> +++-==============-================-============-==================================================> > >> >> iF grub-pc 2.04-1ubuntu26.4 amd64 GRand Unified > >> >> Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS versi> lines 1-6/6 (END) > >> >> > >> >> >Step 2: > >> >> > > >> >> > dpkg --debug=3 -i > >> >> >/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_<whatever-your-version-is>*.deb > >> > > >> >gmail misrendered that (supposed to be one line): > >> > > >> >sudo dpkg --debug=3 -i > >> >/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_2.04-1ubuntu26.4_amd64.deb > >> > > >> >(notice the version from the dpkg -l grub-pc in the .deb filename) > >> > >> Somethng's still wrong: > >> > >> sudo dpkg --debug=3 -i > >> /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_2.04-1ubuntu26.4_amd64.deb dpkg: > >> error: cannot access archive > >> '/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_2.04-1ubuntu26.4_amd64.deb': No > >> such file or directory > >> > >> I carefully read every letter to make sure my copy/paste did it > >> right, but I must have messed up something. > >> > >Look in that directory (/var/cache/apt/archives/) for which > >grub-pc_*.deb files you *do* have. > > There are a lot of files there, but none that start with grub. I also > searched /var from the command line, and I got the following: > > locate grub-pc > /usr/share/bug/grub-pc > /usr/share/bug/grub-pc-bin > /usr/share/bug/grub-pc/presubj > /usr/share/bug/grub-pc/script > /usr/share/bug/grub-pc-bin/presubj > /usr/share/bug/grub-pc-bin/script > /usr/share/doc/grub-pc > /usr/share/doc/grub-pc-bin > /usr/share/lintian/overrides/grub-pc-bin > /var/crash/grub-pc.0.crash > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc-bin.list > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc-bin.md5sums > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.config > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.list > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.md5sums > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postrm > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.preinst > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.prerm > /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.templates > > The file /var/crash/grub-pc.0.crash is obviously interesting, so I > opened it in mousepad. It contains hundreds of pages of grub-pc errors, > and the one at the very top of the page was when I installed a program > 'sound converter' a few weeks ago, and at the end of the installation > there was the error message 'unable to configure grub-pc.' Well, I've > seen hundreds of those, so there's no point in wading through the file. > Mind you, there might be something more interesting, but I doubt I'd > accomplish much without knowing what to do a text search on. > > And all I searched was /var. If there are other places where we might > find clues let me know. Or if any of the other files above are > interesting I can look at them.
