Bug#547649: grub-pc postinst exit status 128

[Arno Schuring]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
[...]
> 
> I hope you have at least time to do this: Change the first line of
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst from `#!/bin/bash -e' to
> `#!/bin/bash -ex', i.e. add `x' then run DEBCONF_DEVELOPER=debug
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst configure 1.97~beta3-1

Here it is, but I'm afraid it won't really help you much.
DEBCONF_DEVELOPER=debug seems to have no effect:

root at neminis:~# DEBCONF_DEVELOPER=debug
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst configure 1.97~beta3-1
+ case "$1" in
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
++ '[' '' ']'
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst
configure 1.97~beta3-1

repeating the last command manually gives no output (apart from the dialog):

root at neminis:~# export DEBCONF_DEVELOPER=debug
root at neminis:~# DEBCONF_DEVELOPER=debug /usr/share/debconf/frontend
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst configure 1.97~beta3-1


As an additional point of information, I tried the same commands on
Debian-supplied 2.6.30-1, but that made no difference.