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
You don't have to reboot right away.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:55 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700
> Russell Senior dijo:
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> >How about an "sudo apt update" first?
>
> Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't
> you?
>
> So I
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
How about an "sudo apt update" first?
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:24 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:10:34 -0700
> Russell Senior dijo:
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> >Okay, try this:
> >
> > apt-get download grub-pc
> > dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb
>
> E: Can't find a source to download
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
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:
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> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700
> Russell Senior dijo:
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> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021
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:
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>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700
>> Russell Senior dijo:
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>> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan
>> >wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700
> Russell Senior dijo:
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> >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
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:
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>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700
>> Russell Senior dijo:
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>> >Step 1:
>> >
>> > dpkg -l grub-pc
>> >
>> >which should give you the partially installed version you've
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700
> Russell Senior dijo:
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> >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
>
If you would not be hell set against totalComander - it has sftp plugin
which allows me to copy files on/off my phone.
It is probably faster than USB and definitely without the days of trouble
you like going through.
Ssh works on most Linux computers, so it is pretty easy to use for non
windows
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
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
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:
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> About a year ago, at the end of a dist-update (not an upgrade, just the
> usual updates)
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
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