Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2
My system is a 64 bit version of 9.10. I have my boot drive with two physical disks in a raid 1 using mdadm. I upgraded from 9.04, so grub- pc was not part of the upgrade. However, my grub menu stopped working (didn't listen to ESC at boot up) so I tried to install grub2 (grub-pc). The apt-get installation of grub-pc failed, but first uninstalled grub. I needed to boot from a live CD and use its version of grub (grub-pc refused to write to a RAID array) to get my system booting again. Although my system boots now, I can now no longer install either grub or grub-pc. I'm posting the apt-get messages I get when trying to fix my system below. I would be happy with any solution that leaves me with a functioning version of grub or grub-pc. Thanks! Patrick pg...@megalodon:~$ sudo apt-get install grub Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: grub-doc The following packages will be REMOVED: grub-pc The following NEW packages will be installed: grub 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/903kB of archives. After this operation, 188kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 319988 files and directories currently installed.) Removing grub-pc ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) pg...@megalodon:~$ sudo apt-get install grub-pc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done grub-pc is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up grub-pc (1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) pg...@megalodon:~$ pg...@megalodon:~$ apt-cache policy dpkg dpkg: Installed: 1.15.4ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.15.4ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.15.4ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status pg...@megalodon:~$ apt-cache policy grub grub: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.97-29ubuntu59 Version table: 0.97-29ubuntu59 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status pg...@megalodon:~$ apt-cache policy grub-pc grub-pc: Installed: 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 Candidate: 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 Version table: *** 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- grub-pc cannot be installed or uninstalled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/536867 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs