package memtest86+ 1.70-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should

[Brian J. Murrell]

Binary package hint: memtest86+

fails to install when /boot/grub is present i.e. grub not installed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 1 01:01:33 2007
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia vmnet vmmon via82cxxx
Package: memtest86+ 1.70-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: memtest86+
Title: package memtest86+ 1.70-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
Uname: Linux pc 2.6.22-7-generic #1 SMP Mon Jun 25 17:33:14 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Elliot Murphy (statik)]

I'm experiencing this bug on an amd64 machine running gutsy:
emurphy@scared@:~/src/bzr-webserve/docs>sudo apt-get install memtest86+
[sudo] password for emurphy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  hwtools kernel-patch-badram mtools
The following packages will be upgraded:
  memtest86+
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 120 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/65.1kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 474534 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace memtest86+ 1.70-2ubuntu1 (using .../memtest86+_1.70-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement memtest86+ ...
Searching for GRUB installation directory ...
No GRUB directory found. To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first. To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command. ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###

dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Searching for GRUB installation directory ...
No GRUB directory found. To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first. To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command. ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/memtest86+_1.70-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Searching for GRUB installation directory ...
No GRUB directory found. To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first. To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command. ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###

dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/memtest86+_1.70-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Elliot Murphy (statik)]

After looking at this further, I don't know that this is actually a problem with memtest86+. My system seems to be in sad shape, and grub is mysteriously not installed. I was able to 'sudo mkdir /boot/grub', then reinstall memtest86+, and answered yes to the prompts about installing grub. Now I'm installing the rest of the updates that had been blocked, and hopefully the system will be able to reboot.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 15:01 +0000, Elliot Murphy wrote:
> After looking at this further, I don't know that this is actually a
> problem with memtest86+.

It is.

> My system seems to be in sad shape, and grub is
> mysteriously not installed.

I don't have grub installed either, but that was a conscious decision on
my part. I use lilo.

> I was able to 'sudo mkdir /boot/grub', then
> reinstall memtest86+, and answered yes to the prompts about installing
> grub.

Indeed, so was I. But we should not have had to do that.

b.

--
My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell

[Achim Bohnet (allee)]

Same error msg on a system installed with FAI 3.2.1. memtest86+ is installed before
grub and therefore memtest86+ postinst fails, because there no /boot/grub directory.

memtest86 in debian tests for /boot/grub/grub.cfg before running update-grub,
but this file seem to be a new feature of grub, not used/available on (k)ubuntu/Gutsy
beta

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425221

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

memtest86+ (1.70-3ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Add lpia as supported architecture.
    - Makefile: Add -fno-stack-protector to CFLAGS, since this package does
      not link against libc.
  * Check for /boot/grub/menu.lst rather than /boot/grub/menu.lst in
    post{inst,rm}, LP: #129614

memtest86+ (1.70-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Build-depend on gcc-multilib on amd64 (Closes: #426239).
  * Check for existence of /boot/grub/grub.cfg before running update-grub
    (Closes: #425221).
  * Take into account in make-memtest86+-boot-floppy path changes in
    grub-legacy (Justin B Rye, Closes: #412255). Does not support grub2,
    however.

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:43:24 +0200

[Shawn Peterson (shawnpeterson77)]

My machine is stalling while trying to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 alpha 3. It is getting stuck on the memtest86+. It is via wubi, so I have tried a couple of times, and same result.