[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.02-2ubuntu8.19 --- grub2 (2.02-2ubuntu8.19) bionic; urgency=medium * grub-install: cherry-pick patch from grub-devel to make grub-install fault tolerant. Create backup of files in /boot/grub, and restore them on failure to complete

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

started with xenial install. grub2 is at 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.28 put apparmor profile in place, and upgrading non-interactively upgrade to 2.02-2ubuntu8.19 fails as expected with grub-install saying that error cannot open /dev/vda permission denied. grub-pc package remains in iF state. in /boot/

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

@regenpfeifer Some of the identified issues affect debian too. we are working with debian maintainers to resolve them there too. It is unfortunate that some of the updates got pushed out rapidly, thus causing distress. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Unfortunately I have switched to Debian 10 meanwhile, so I cannot test the bugfix. Nevertheless thank you for your efforts. I will certainly return to Ubuntu in the future. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected, Accepted grub2 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02-2ubuntu8.19 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

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[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

@juliank thank you. accordingly #1896608 shouldn't be listed as a blocker on https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-1-lts-point-release- status-tracking/17604 ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

@costinel It's failing due to bug 1896608 in your case which is a regression from this update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf point

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

manually installing grub works like this: # grub-install --force --removable --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. Installation finished. No error reported. meanwhile as a workaround I have symlinked /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst to /bin/true so other apt comman

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

I have enabled debugging on /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst when running dpkg --configure -a: https://termbin.com/7nh1 but I don't understand from the above output why it fails -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

this bionic to focal upgrade still fails. not sure if this is the proper place to discuss. 18.04.5 installed minimal in vmware player then do-release-upgrade: https://i.imgur.com/YGLEWvy.png 18.04.5 setup deviations from defaults: root on thin lv created manually in terminal in live installer. l

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Hello Steve, thank you for your explanation. In my case I am quite sure, that my grub was correctly configured BEFORE the upgrade to 20.04. I am starting with an absolutely fresh installation of 18.04 which is working flawlessly and reboots without any problems. I have tried the upgrade to 20.04

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

> "Could not install 'grub-pc'. The upgrade will continue but the 'grub- > pc' package may not be in a working state. Please consider a bug report > about it. Installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 1." This is not evidence that this bug is not fi

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

I can confirm that this bug is not fixed. Today Ubuntu informed me of 20.04 and I started the distribution upgrade. I got the following message: "Could not install 'grub-pc'. The upgrade will continue but the 'grub- pc' package may not be in a working state. Please consider a bug report about it.

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Unfortunately, this bug seems not fixed for me. I am using a remote server at 1&1 Hosting with a RAID 1 configuration and logical volumes (LVM). I am starting with a fresh image of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. With do-release-upgrade I can upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but I am ending with this error: Errors

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

I was unable to upgrade and this link (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release- upgrader/+bug/1769446) solved the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title:

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Upgrade (from v18.04 to 20.04) is already released! Thanks to everybody for your debbuging and support! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debc

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

The strange is that the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is already available from the Windows 10 store. It's possible to install this version and transfer all the configuration, applications and repositories from Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS to 20.04 LTS? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member o

Re: [Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:57:15PM -, Chris wrote: > Since this is the final blocker, I think they're just leaving that > status alone until they actually publish 20.04.1 for upgrade, so they > don't get a deluge of people asking why it's not released yet if there's > no blockers. > > Probably

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Since this is the final blocker, I think they're just leaving that status alone until they actually publish 20.04.1 for upgrade, so they don't get a deluge of people asking why it's not released yet if there's no blockers. Probably running final tests on the upgrade path. -- You received this bu

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

I wonder why this is still mentioned as upgrade blocker at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-1-lts-point-release- status-tracking/17604 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891

Re: [Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

On September 20, 2020 5:09:37 AM PDT, Hadmut Danisch <1891...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: >So for upgrading from release X to Y both X and Y must not have >critical bugs? Nothing of the sort. This bug is no longer a blocker now that it's fixed in focal, and I believe the intent is to turn on upgr

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

So for upgrading from release X to Y both X and Y must not have critical bugs? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid dri

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

As you can see, Bionic status is Confirmed, not fix released! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

ok, so now that this is fixed, why is ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04.1 still blocked? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Does this not need to be backported all the way to Xenial and Bionic ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and s

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.04-1ubuntu26.4 --- grub2 (2.04-1ubuntu26.4) focal; urgency=medium * grub-install: cherry-pick patch from grub-devel to make grub-install fault tolerant. Create backup of files in /boot/grub, and restore them on failure to complete

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Hi, Louis. You made me happy for a few minutes. Regards. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in pre

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid d

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Sorry, didn't meant to change the status, I cannot revert the change. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and st

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid d

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Installed from 18.04.4 media, in bios mode. Added and loaded apparmor profile. Enabled focal, focal-updates, focal-proposed archives. Exported DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noniteractive to ensure non-interactive updates. Started upgrade of grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common grub-common. Configuration of grub

Re: [Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 08:51:49PM -, costinel wrote: > some of us here are innocent 18.04LTS users waiting for canonical to > enable do-release-upgrade to focal, because this issue is blocking the LTS > to LTS upgrade process (link in comment #9) There is a test case in the description that e

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

@vorlon, some of us here are innocent 18.04LTS users waiting for canonical to enable do-release-upgrade to focal, because this issue is blocking the LTS to LTS upgrade process (link in comment #9) with that in mind, how can we help testing without access to focal? -- You received this bug noti

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected, Accepted grub2 into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.04-1ubuntu26.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

@ded, the bug says for groovy Started work: 2020-08-18 Completed: 2020-09-02 for focal, Started work: 2020-09-08 so one can only guess it would take another two weeks, if the same work conditions apply -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Is there an ETA when we can finally do-release-upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Yes, it looks that way: "Focal Fossa (20.04.1 LTS) Point-Release Status Tracking" https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-1-lts-point-release-status-tracking/17604 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Will this fix be backported to Focal? This is the only bug blocking upgrades from 18.04 to 20.04, afaik. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when deb

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.04-1ubuntu29 --- grub2 (2.04-1ubuntu29) groovy; urgency=medium * grub-install: cherry-pick patch from grub-devel to make grub-install fault tolerant. Create backup of files in /boot/grub, and restore them on failure to complete gru

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Groovy) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid d

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Tags added: id-5f36bab45785997ba0092e8a -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unp

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

I disagree that preinst changes are needed. I have fixed error reporting in non-interactive postinst case. And made grub-install resilient, w.r.t. operating against non-existent devices or devices that refuse writing to. In all such cases, backup is created and restored. Thus there is no need to

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/grub/+git/grub/+merge/389968 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Description changed: [Impact]  * grub-pc currently installs new core to MBR and installs new modules to /boot in an unsafe manner, which may lead to incompatible combination of MBR and modules resulting in failure to boot. [Test Case]  * Install using old point media, of an

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Description changed: [Impact] * grub-pc currently installs new core to MBR and installs new modules to /boot in an unsafe manner, which may lead to incompatible combination of MBR and modules resulting in failure to boot. [Test Case] * Install using old point media, of an

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Description changed: - Currently on upgrade if the debconf variable for the drive to install - grub-pc to point to a non-existent drive, the grub package will - nevertheless happily carry on and the postinst will exit 0 - as a result - leaving the /boot/grub contents and the MBR in an inconsist

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Groovy) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Groovy) Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

First point => yes Second point => mostly yes, but I am not sold on having it a must in preinst. dpkg-reconfigure does not call preinst, it only calls "prerm config postinst", and we must have the same checks and error recovery in postinst. (Because things can change between preinst and postinst,

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title:

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title:

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: grub

[Bug 1891680] Re: grub-pc needs to detect when debconf points to invalid drive and stop in preinst, before unpacking files, and also treat this as a failure in postinst

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu Focal) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1891680 Title: