Bug#677161: grub2-common: update-grub seems not to be run at upgrade from 1.99-14 to 1.99-21

[Paul Seyfert]

Package: grub2-common
Version: 1.99-21
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

my linux installation is on my second harddrive (first hdd has only the /home/
partition).
Usually (due to bad experience) I run update-grub manually after an update of
grub. (no further options or arguments)

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

recently I forgot that. When I then rebooted my computer after an update of
grub, I could still select the correct kernel in the grub menu at boot, but
then grub gave an error (partition not found or similar, sorry didn't put it
down and as you can imagine I'm not keen on reproducing it).

   * What was the outcome of this action?

well, I couldn't boot my computer

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

normal boot.

I fixed it booting with grml from usb stick, mounting all partitions, chrooting
into my installation and executing `update-grub`




-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub2-common depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.16.3
ii  grub-common   1.99-21
ii  install-info  4.13a.dfsg.1-10

grub2-common recommends no packages.

grub2-common suggests no packages.

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