That's meant to be update-manager -d of course. On 03/09/2012 01:31 PM, Rick McBride wrote: > Actually, during the dist-manager -d install, I did get a dialog that > was all "unknown character" blocks in the message and on the buttons. I > don't know what it was asking. It didn't appear to block (I never > answered it, not being able to read it), but it was perhaps that > message. I HAVE seen it in the past, but not during this testing session. > > I had meant to reproduce and document that weird dialog, but got > distracted by this problem. I'll go back and get more info on that > either over the weekend or Monday, when I have capacity on my VM host to > make another pre-update clone and run the process again. > > The only dialog that I recall, apart from the typical "remove these > packages?" type things, was to do with restarting services. > > > > On 03/09/2012 11:48 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> You should run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' and instruct it to >> install the boot loader somewhere, probably /dev/vda. >> >> The debconf database shows that the following question was presented to >> you at some point: >> >> You chose not to install GRUB to any devices. If you continue, the >> boot loader may not be properly configured, and when this computer next >> starts up it will use whatever was previously in the boot sector. If >> there is an earlier version of GRUB 2 in the boot sector, it may be >> unable to load modules or handle the current configuration file. >> >> If you are already using a different boot loader and want to carry on >> doing so, or if this is a special environment where you do not need a >> boot loader, then you should continue anyway. Otherwise, you should >> install GRUB somewhere. >> >> Continue without installing GRUB? >> >> Do you remember seeing this question? It was intended to strongly >> discourage setups like this ... >> >
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