package grub-common 2.02~beta2-15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Robert Weide]

just tried to upgrade and got this

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: grub-common
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.68-generic 3.13.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 5 15:38:34 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:grub-common:2.02~beta2-15:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-16 (626 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20120214.2)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-40-generic root=UUID=2665a74f-e44f-4589-8554-2c954223116f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package grub-common 2.02~beta2-15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-05 (0 days ago)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It looks like insserv is bombing out and failing the upgrade because some unrelated init script is missing LSB headers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Anton Alexandrenok (the-spyke)]

Affects my Ubuntu 17.10 (x86_64 Linux 4.13.0-32-generic) on installing grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1)