Bug#584199: update-grub cannot find video.lst and locales

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 09:32:01AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> head: cannot open `/boot/grub/video.lst' for reading: No such file or directory
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/boot/grub/locale'.
> No path or device is specified.
> Try `/usr/sbin/grub-probe --help' for more information.
> 
> an grub-install seems to have fixed the issue, but I generally expect
> that a package doesn't break on update unless a manual action is done.

The next upload will avoid the locale error, which is the fatal one
(#567211).  There'll still be a complaint about video.lst but it's
cosmetic.

Do you deliberately have grub-pc/install_devices set to empty, or is
that accidental?  Until grub2 development settles down, there'll be
periodic events where grub.cfg requires new features from the core
image, so it's normally still necessary to run grub-install together
with update-grub.  I know there are some situations where the packaging
makes it rather too easy to avoid this by accident right now.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]