On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:27:20 -0800 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> dijo:
>I did some poking around and came up with something for you to try. > >First, may sure you have the right grub-pc deb package: > > dpkg -l grub-pc > >I see something like this at the end: > > ii grub-pc 2.04-1ubuntu26.8 amd64 GRand Unified >Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) My results: dpkg -l grub-pc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-================-============-=================================================> iF grub-pc 2.04-1ubuntu26.4 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS vers> >Look in /var/cache/apt/archives for the matching deb file: >If you don't see it, try: > apt --reinstall -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=true install grub-pc ls: cannot access '/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc*': No such file or directory sudo apt --reinstall -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=true install grub-pc [sudo] password for jjj: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reinstallation of grub-pc is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up grub-pc (2.04-1ubuntu26.4) ... dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure): installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >You will probably see whatever postinst error you have been seeing. >But now you should have the deb file, at least, so try looking for it >again: > > ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc* Same error message as above - it's still not there. But just now I fired up Synaptic, and it lists grub-pc and grub-pc-bin as installed, version 2.04-1ubuntu26.4. For the past several days the Ubuntu Update Manager has kept popping up to tell me that there are some critical security updates that I need to install, including a new kernel. I'm going to wait. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug