This is fixed with the upload of grub 0.97-11ubuntu13. There were two places were update-grub still wrote to stdout, confusing debconf and make the postinst fail.
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- xubuntu dapper 6.06 to edgy 6.10 dist-upgrade failed (kernel postinst failure) https://launchpad.net/bugs/63074 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs