Bug#562054: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 11:10 +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> reassign 562054 grub-common
> forcemerge 562054 562034
> thanks
> Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Soeren Sonnenburg:
> > Package: grub-pc
> > Version: 1.98~20091221-1
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > the recent upgrade fails to install here (it used to install work just
> > fine...)
> > 
> > Setting up grub-pc (1.98~20091221-1) ...
> > head: cannot open `/boot/grub/video.lst' for reading: No such file or
> > directory
> 
> That happened because you problabe have an empty
> grub-pc/install_devices.
> Unfortunately you excluded the debconf infos.
> We recommend to run grub-install in our postinst, because of things like
> this.
> Just run grub-install yourself and then again update-grub to fix that.

Yes that helped - thanks!

> > Generating grub.cfg ...
> > /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober: 40: function: not found
> Remove the function keyword from `function osx_entry {' in line 40
> of /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
> I just fixed this upstream.
> It's not needed at all and with dash as /bin/sh it even doestn't work.

I had to put osx_entry() { in line 40 to get it to work.

Thanks for your lightning fast help.

Soeren
-- 
For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it
will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grub-devel/attachments/20091222/ac89cbaa/attachment-0001.pgp>