Bug#1108089: grub-efi-amd64, linux-image-amd64: system fails to boot because grub config not updated after latest kernel upgrade

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 03:15pm +02, Felix Zielcke wrote:

> Am Freitag, dem 20.06.2025 um 13:49 +0100 schrieb Sean Whitton:
>> Package: grub-efi-amd64,linux-image-amd64
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear maintainers,
>>
>> I had kernel 6.12.27 running.  I just upgraded to kernel 6.12.32.  My
>> system
>> then did not boot by itself because the grub config still contained
>> entries
>> for 6.12.31, which had been autoremoved.  I could recover by booting
>> the old
>> 6.12.27 and then doing a manual 'update-grub'.
>>
>> I see this in my /var/log/apt/term.log:
>>
> [...]
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> strange that update-grub isn't at all run.
>
> Do you have /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub?
> It should be installed by grub2-common.

I have /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub.dpkg-dist only.

Reinstalling grub2-common does not fix the problem.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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