On Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 08:33 Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:41 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Every time I try to install or uninstall something from the command > > line I get the following error message: > > > > installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess > > returned error exit status 1 > > > > I've searched everywhere for some clue how to fix this, but without > > success. Meanwhile, everything is working fine. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Is your system using the EFI bootloader? Maybe grub-efi-amd64 is > installed and it is not using grub-pc. > > If your system has this directory > /sys/firmware/efi/ > > Then you using efi and the grub-pc is not needed. > > Also you should check to see that grub-efi-amd64 is installed. If so > grub-pc is not needed, in fact I think it should have been > uninstalled. > > All of this is working with fire so you should probably get a second > opinion before doing anything. > > Bill > .
This could be a side-effect of using/copying hard drive from the past Ubuntu installations. If that is the case the problem is likely unique to one of the past distribution updates such as 14.xx --> 16.xx or --> 18.xx. it might be worth it to search old stuff grub/efi issues. -T _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
