package grub-pc 2.00-14ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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doing release-upgrade

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: grub-pc 2.00-14ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-15.25-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 23 16:27:56 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:grub-pc:2.00-14ubuntu1:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-07 (349 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-15-generic root=UUID=aee062fc-d339-42ff-9546-8f0a82243015 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package grub-pc 2.00-14ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-23 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Shiva (gs-a-bits)]

Cant believe such a critical bug is not being resolved!

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

It appears as though either grub was installed to a disk which is no longer attached to the system, or something went wrong when bringing up /boot.

Could you try to see if the following commands give you any results?

mount /boot
ls -l /boot

I'm reducing this bug importance to High; there isn't sufficient data to be able to consider this a Critical bug, especially since there are apparently no duplicates (I looked quickly and didn't see bugs that had the exact same symptoms), and it seems like the messages on upgrade would have been fairly clear to indicate a major issue during the upgrade. Additionally, what may have caused this seems fairly straightforward, so we'll wait until we hear more from you and bring the importance back up if necessary.

Thanks!

[Vincent Fortier (th0ma7)]

between 12.04 up to 14.10 the grub update process being invoked at every kernel upgrades eventually disapeared... Note that I did had to boot using live cd image at multiple occasions and force reinstall of either grub or kernel on my system (after having done multiple manual bind-mount over dev, proc and others so the dpkg process works ok).

Now all kernel updates works flawlessly. I could potentially reproduce by reinstalling 12.04/12.10 and re-upgrade but i don't whish to go that route.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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