Bug#749571: grub-pc: "aptitude install" reports "post-installation script returned error exit status 30"

Paul paulusm at telstra.com
Wed May 28 12:18:11 UTC 2014


> Thanks.  This command should fix things up for now:
> 
>   echo FSET grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2 seen false | sudo debconf-communicate

Confirmed:

    paul at shift:~$ echo FSET grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2 seen false | sudo debconf-communicate
    [sudo] password for paul: 
    0 false
    paul at shift:~$ sudo aptitude install
    The following partially installed packages will be configured:
      grub-pc 
    No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
    Setting up grub-pc (2.02~beta2-10) ...
    Installing for i386-pc platform.
    Installation finished. No error reported.
    Generating grub configuration file ...
    Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14-1-686-pae
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.14-1-686-pae
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13-1-686-pae
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13-1-686-pae
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-1-686-pae
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-686-pae
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11-1-686-pae
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.11-1-686-pae
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10-2-686-pae
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.10-2-686-pae
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-686-pae
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-686-pae
    done
                                    
> ... and I'll make sure this is fixed in the next upload.

Thanks Colin - much appreciated.

--
Paul.



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