Bug#737820: grub-pc: postinst fails when ‘grub-mkconfig’ has non-zero exit status

2014-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:25:04PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > On 07-Feb-2014, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think you have a locally-modified /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme (which is > > a conffile), did not choose to apply the maintainer changes to that file > > in 2.00-1, and thus have a version that st

Bug#737820: grub-pc: postinst fails when ‘grub-mkconfig’ has non-zero exit status

2014-02-07 Thread Ben Finney
package grub-pc tags 737820 + unreproducible thanks On 07-Feb-2014, Colin Watson wrote: > I think you have a locally-modified /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme (which is > a conffile), did not choose to apply the maintainer changes to that file > in 2.00-1, and thus have a version that still refers to $

Bug#737820: grub-pc: postinst fails when ‘grub-mkconfig’ has non-zero exit status

2014-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:10:52AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > * ‘/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig’ exits with status 1, because > * ‘/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme’ exits with status 1, because > * ‘test -d "${GRUB_PREFIX}"’ exits with status 1, because > * ‘GRUB_PREFIX’ is empty. I think you have a locally-m

Bug#737820: grub-pc: postinst fails when ‘grub-mkconfig’ has non-zero exit status

2014-02-06 Thread Ben Finney
On 06-Feb-2014, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:59:47PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > […] the process is aborted when ‘grub-mkconfig’ exits with status 1. > > This is apparently not an error, though, and the process should not > > fail. > > Could you please expand on your chain of

Bug#737820: grub-pc: postinst fails when ‘grub-mkconfig’ has non-zero exit status

2014-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:59:47PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > When the postinst for ‘grub-pc’ calls > ‘/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub’, the process is aborted when > ‘grub-mkconfig’ exits with status 1. This is apparently not an error, > though, and the process should not fail. Could you pl

Bug#737820: grub-pc: postinst fails when ‘grub-mkconfig’ has non-zero exit status

2014-02-06 Thread Ben Finney
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.00-22 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When the postinst for ‘grub-pc’ calls ‘/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub’, the process is aborted when ‘grub-mkconfig’ exits with status 1. This is apparently not an error, though, and the process should not fail. = /etc