Update to grub-legacy-ec2 17.2-35-gf576b2a2-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 failed to remove old files

[Shedros]

Hi there,

after upgrading grub-legacy-ec2 to 17.2-35-gf576b2a2-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 from 17.1-46-g7acc9e68-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 on my Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS it failed some dpkg commands:

Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von .../grub-legacy-ec2_17.2-35-gf576b2a2-0ubuntu1~16.04.2_all.deb ...
»Umleitung von /usr/sbin/grub-set-default zu /usr/sbin/grub-set-default.real durch grub-legacy-ec2« wird beibehalten
Entpacken von grub-legacy-ec2 (17.2-35-gf576b2a2-0ubuntu1~16.04.2) über (17.1-46-g7acc9e68-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) ...
!!!
dpkg: Warnung: Altes Verzeichnis »/etc/kernel/kernel/postrm.d« kann nicht gelöscht werden: Das Verzeichnis ist nicht leer
dpkg: Warnung: Altes Verzeichnis »/etc/kernel/kernel/postinst.d« kann nicht gelöscht werden: Das Verzeichnis ist nicht leer
dpkg: Warnung: Altes Verzeichnis »/etc/kernel/kernel« kann nicht gelöscht werden: Das Verzeichnis ist nicht leer
!!!
grub-legacy-ec2 (17.2-35-gf576b2a2-0ubuntu1~16.04.2) wird eingerichtet ...
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-4.4.0-112-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-4.4.0-21-generic
Replacing config file /run/grub/menu.lst with new version
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-4.4.0-116-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-4.4.0-112-generic
Replacing config file /run/grub/menu.lst with new version
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

I marked the errors with !!!. It says: "Old directory XXX could not be removed, directory isn't empty."

It seems that it tries to remove "/etc/kernel/kernel/postrm.d", "/etc/kernel/kernel/postinst.d" and "/etc/kernel/kernel" but failed because they are not empty, the old scripts "x-grub-legacy-ec2" reside inside the folders. They are moved "up" to "/etc/kernel". Is this supposed behavior? When I move /etc/kernel/kernel/ to /etc/kernel/kernel.bck" every works fine.

Any way to fix the package?

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I think these comments are just noise at this piont.
I do not believe you will see them on subsequent updates.

there was a fix that went in that moved the directory from '/etc/kernel/kernel' to '/etc/kernel' (bug 1581416).
i believe the messages are just a result of that.

if you continued to see this on subsequent ugrades you can set back to new.

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