Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:55:21 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >You don't have to reboot right away. All is well. Overnight the copy completed, so this morning I rebooted. Everything seems OK. I reinstalled an application and the process ended cleanly without the error messages about grub-pc. A

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-19 Thread Russell Senior
You don't have to reboot right away. On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:55 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >How about an "sudo apt update" first? > > Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't > you? > > So I

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >How about an "sudo apt update" first? Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't you? So I installed them. They weren't listed in Synaptic, but the little Ubuntu Update Manager had them, so I let it install

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
How about an "sudo apt update" first? On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:24 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:10:34 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >Okay, try this: > > > > apt-get download grub-pc > > dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb > > E: Can't find a source to download

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:10:34 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Okay, try this: > > apt-get download grub-pc > dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb E: Can't find a source to download version '2.04-1ubuntu26.4' of 'grub-pc:amd64' I don't know why apt doesn't know where it is. Surely it

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
Okay, try this: apt-get download grub-pc dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:36 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> >> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan >> >wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 > >> Russell Senior dijo: > >> > >> >Step 1: > >> > > >> > dpkg

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> >> >Step 1: >> > >> > dpkg -l grub-pc >> > >> >which should give you the partially installed version you've

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >Step 1: > > > > dpkg -l grub-pc > > > >which should give you the partially installed version you've got. > > The results are not at all clear: > dpkg -l grub-pc >

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
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Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Step 1: > > dpkg -l grub-pc > >which should give you the partially installed version you've got. The results are not at all clear: dpkg -l grub-pc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-17 Thread Russell Senior
Step 1: dpkg -l grub-pc which should give you the partially installed version you've got. Step 2: dpkg --debug=3 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_*.deb According to dpkg --debug=help, --debug=3 turns on 1 general Generally helpful progress information 2 scripts

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-17 Thread Russell Senior
You might have a look at this file: /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst That's the post installation script that is exiting with an error status. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:47 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > About a year ago, at the end of a dist-update (not an upgrade, just the > usual updates)

[PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
About a year ago, at the end of a dist-update (not an upgrade, just the usual updates) the Update Manager GUI application announced that it was unable to configure grub-pc. The problem remains. I can install or remove packages, but at the end I always get an error message that grub-pc could not be