package grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.9 failed to install/upgrade: package grub-common is already installed and configured

[Alex]

I suddenly started getting an error after booting into Ubuntu Desktop. Don't really know why Grub is coming up since I am single booting into ubuntu with no other OS partitions installed

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
AptdaemonVersion: 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 14 22:11:31 2017
DuplicateSignature:
 package:grub-common:2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.9
 Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
 dpkg: error processing package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (--configure):
  package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is already installed and configured
ErrorMessage: package grub-common is already installed and configured
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-31 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-36-generic root=UUID=b642098a-ea6b-4eb8-bb71-a9524c61be72 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.2.19
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.9 failed to install/upgrade: package grub-common is already installed and configured
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Looks like apt thinks there are some packages that need configured, but dpkg thinks they are already configured:

dpkg: error processing package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (--configure):
 package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is already installed and configured
dpkg: error processing package libfreetype6:amd64 (--configure):
 package libfreetype6:amd64 is already installed and configured
dpkg: error processing package grub-common (--configure):
 package grub-common is already installed and configured

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Probably fixed in zesty or newer with the huge installation ordering changes, it mostly configures all pending ones in one go now.