[Bug 1747579] [NEW] package grub-common 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Public bug reported: Today updating my PC using Software Updater took forever. Here is the relevant excerpt from dkpg.log. Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Job for grub-common.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status grub-common.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript grub-common, action "start" failed. [0;1;31m●[0m grub-common.service - LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/grub-common; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: [0;1;31mfailed[0m (Result: timeout) since Tue 2018-02-06 07:11:45 CET; 11ms ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 4356 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/grub-common start (code=killed, signal=TERM) Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/grub-common.service └─4360 plymouth --ping Feb 06 07:06:45 BRU-OLJA systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB... Feb 06 07:11:45 BRU-OLJA systemd[1]: [0;1;39mgrub-common.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.[0m Feb 06 07:11:45 BRU-OLJA systemd[1]: [0;1;31mFailed to start LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB.[0m Feb 06 07:11:45 BRU-OLJA systemd[1]: [0;1;39mgrub-common.service: Unit entered failed state.[0m Feb 06 07:11:45 BRU-OLJA systemd[1]: [0;1;39mgrub-common.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.[0m dpkg: error processing package grub-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for systemd (234-2ubuntu12.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ... Setting up adobe-flashplugin (1:20180109.1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... Setting up linux-firmware (1.169.3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_rlc.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_mec2.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_mec.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_me.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_pfp.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_ce.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_sdma.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_vcn.bin for module amdgpu update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-31-generic W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_rlc.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_mec2.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_mec.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_me.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_pfp.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_ce.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_sdma.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_vcn.bin for module amdgpu update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-25-generic W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_rlc.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_mec2.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_mec.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_me.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_pfp.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_ce.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_sdma.bin for module amdgpu W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/raven_vcn.bin for module amdgpu Setting up adobe-flash-properties-gtk (1:20180109.1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-pc-bin: grub-pc-bin depends on grub-common (= 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1); however: Package grub-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package grub-pc-bin (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-pc: grub-pc depends on grub-common (= 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1); however: Package grub-common is not configured yet. grub-pc depends on grub-pc-bin (= 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1); however: Package grub-pc-bin is not configured y
[Bug 1747579] Re: package grub-common 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
After rebooting and running apt upgrade from a command line the grub- common package seems to have completed its installation successfully (see below). Maybe this bug can be closed. $ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-4.13.0-25 linux-headers-4.13.0-25-generic linux-image-4.13.0-25-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-25-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be upgraded: virt-manager virtinst 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1,070 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe amd64 virtinst all 1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1 [170 kB] Get:2 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/universe amd64 virt-manager all 1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1 [900 kB] Fetched 1,070 kB in 1s (558 kB/s) (Reading database ... 259345 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../virtinst_1%3a1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1_all.deb ... Unpacking virtinst (1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1) over (1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2) ... Preparing to unpack .../virt-manager_1%3a1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1_all.deb ... Unpacking virt-manager (1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1) over (1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2) ... Setting up virtinst (1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1) ... Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.54.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ... Setting up virt-manager (1:1.4.0-5ubuntu2.1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ... Setting up grub-pc-bin (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1) ... Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1) ... Setting up grub-pc (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1) ... Installing for i386-pc platform. File descriptor 3 (pipe:[32615]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 3841: grub-install File descriptor 3 (pipe:[32615]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 3841: grub-install File descriptor 3 (pipe:[32615]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 3841: grub-install Installation finished. No error reported. Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-32-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-31-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-31-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-25-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-25-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Ubuntu 17.04 (17.04) on /dev/mapper/bru--olja--vg-root2 done W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (21 vs 25). Affected packages: grub-common:amd64 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747579 Title: package grub-common 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1747579/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
