grub-pc failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - frontend: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

[sparks]

Binary package hint: grub2

Update manager attempted to update my system but hung with questions for grub. When I restarted my computer the version.16 failed to start and the system reverted back to the shell. I was able to do an 'ctrl' 'alt' 'delete' and chose the older.14 and got my computer started up. Went to update manager to try rerunning updates but got an error message stating that I must "manually" run 'sudo dpkg--configure-a'. I am new to linux and do not know how to perform these steps properly.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 21 07:32:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

Please do in the Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and please copy the output:
(copy & paste, it´s for repair all packages)

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

[hank ingles (ingleshank61)]

I have no idea what all this is. Downloaded all undates and it froze on the grub install. Just loaded Unb. yesterday inside Win7. Enjoy much. Plan on running new desktp all Linux soon. Let me know if this is important.

[Bronson Reed (bronsonr2009)]

I'm not sure what it is either or even how it happened. Anyhow, I got
around it somehow. If you run Ubuntu you should use version 10.04 (which
is the latest version).

Have fun, Ubuntu is very cool!

Bronson

On 5/26/10 7:27 PM, hank ingles wrote:
> I have no idea what all this is. Downloaded all undates and it froze on
> the grub install. Just loaded Unb. yesterday inside Win7. Enjoy much.
> Plan on running new desktp all Linux soon. Let me know if this is
> important.
>
>

[hank ingles (ingleshank61)]

Yep! I really like it. Had the last 'version' and just installed 10.04.
Building a new PC with only Linux. Haven't been back to update mgr. yet to
look. Thanks for answer. Keep in touch.

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Bronson Reed <email address hidden>wrote:

> I'm not sure what it is either or even how it happened. Anyhow, I got
> around it somehow. If you run Ubuntu you should use version 10.04 (which
> is the latest version).
>
> Have fun, Ubuntu is very cool!
>
> Bronson
>
> On 5/26/10 7:27 PM, hank ingles wrote:
> > I have no idea what all this is. Downloaded all undates and it froze on
> > the grub install. Just loaded Unb. yesterday inside Win7. Enjoy much.
> > Plan on running new desktp all Linux soon. Let me know if this is
> > important.
> >
> >
>
> --
> grub-pc failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - frontend: Fatal IO error
> 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511463
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: grub2
>
> Update manager attempted to update my system but hung with questions for
> grub. When I restarted my computer the version.16 failed to start and the
> system reverted back to the shell. I was able to do an 'ctrl' 'alt'
> 'delete' and chose the older.14 and got my computer started up. Went to
> update manager to try rerunning updates but got an error message stating
> that I must "manually" run 'sudo dpkg--configure-a'. I am new to linux and
> do not know how to perform these steps properly.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Jan 21 07:32:36 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 1
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386
> (20091028.4)
> Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: grub2
> Tags: ubuntu-unr
> Title: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/511463/+subscribe
>

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[hank ingles (ingleshank61)]

Ran update mgr. again and everything worked out. Loving Linux

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

hank, Do you confirmed that:
- You first installed Ubuntu on a Wubi installation, and the upgrade of grub failed (a window (which ?) hang and you have to forcibly close it)
- You then installed 10.04 from scratch in a native installation, upgrade grub and all it ok

?

[hank ingles (ingleshank61)]

I'll try to be a little more clear. Installed Ubuntu last year inside Vista machine. Got rid of it and bought new mach w/7. Installed 10.04 Monday on it inside Win7. Next day dowloaded ALL updates. Installed till grub and just stopped. Then window came up install without grub: yes or no. Tried with and still no action. So, restarted on Ubuntu and it finished install w/out grub. Works ok. So, I ran updated manager again and it said no updates at this time. " You are up to date." Not frustrated! Oh, I dont understand the terminal, manual load thingy. I tried command, sudo dpkg -- configure-a whatever. No such command. I have lots computor experience but I'm no programmer or developer. It' working for now so I can get familiar with all this when I get my Linux only machine built. I am experienced w/ repair and building. Thanks.

[hank ingles (ingleshank61)]

Note on Launchpad.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> hank, Do you confirmed that:
> - You first installed Ubuntu on a Wubi installation, and the upgrade of
> grub failed (a window (which ?) hang and you have to forcibly close it)
> - You then installed 10.04 from scratch in a native installation, upgrade
> grub and all it ok
>
> ?
>
> ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> grub-pc failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - frontend: Fatal IO error
> 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511463
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: grub2
>
> Update manager attempted to update my system but hung with questions for
> grub. When I restarted my computer the version.16 failed to start and the
> system reverted back to the shell. I was able to do an 'ctrl' 'alt'
> 'delete' and chose the older.14 and got my computer started up. Went to
> update manager to try rerunning updates but got an error message stating
> that I must "manually" run 'sudo dpkg--configure-a'. I am new to linux and
> do not know how to perform these steps properly.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Jan 21 07:32:36 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 1
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386
> (20091028.4)
> Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: grub2
> Tags: ubuntu-unr
> Title: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/511463/+subscribe
>

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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

thanks for the description. I'm setting the status to confirmed.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

as a side note: note all duplicates are using wubi so I think there are 2 issues there. One with the upgrade to the latest grub2 on wubi (the dialog hangs, the user kill it and installation of grub2 fails) and the other without wubi.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's some information about the duplicate releases affected:

LP: #511463 has a total of 129 duplicates
DistroRelease
  [16] Ubuntu 9.10: 480907, 481647, 486283, 491540, 494144, 499873, 500884, 503831, 531258, 534758, 537579, 537810, 544337, 568731, 618057, 662049
  [1] Ubuntu 10.10: 668245
  [107] Ubuntu 10.04: 532091, 539883, 554562, 569677, 573651, 574852, 575948, 576271, 576368, 576486, 576622, 576701, 576716, 576802, 576823, 576899, 577254, 577489, 577732, 577903, 577942, 578073, 578521, 578555, 578719, 578869, 578872, 579108, 580318, 580660, 580904, 581493, 581584, 583349, 584567, 584933, 585642, 585678, 589002, 589300, 589384, 589839, 590184, 590524, 592013, 592029, 593052, 593337, 593339, 594168, 594996, 595185, 595997, 596089, 597570, 598087, 600736, 601026, 601492, 601913, 602344, 602942, 603621, 604833, 605784, 606235, 609349, 609479, 612792, 618751, 619546, 619896, 620500, 620505, 620799, 621250, 621653, 621754, 622085, 624196, 633022, 647977, 649700, 650800, 659682, 661011, 665849, 676779, 676954, 680595, 682862, 683420, 684070, 684998, 686778, 689369, 692316, 693059, 695501, 696776, 705762, 716326, 727408, 759553, 799146, 800287, 816849
  [5] Ubuntu 11.04: 715134, 773583, 783431, 790498, 792722

So there are a couple of instances of this occurring on 11.04.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

3 of the 5 11.04 bug reports occurred during or shortly after performing a distribution upgrade to 11.04.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 08:31:17PM -0000, Brian Murray wrote:
> 3 of the 5 11.04 bug reports occurred during or shortly after performing
> a distribution upgrade to 11.04.

For reports happening during the dist-upgrade, the occurrence could be
explained by having the pre-upgrade version of the debconf frontend still
running. I don't see how this would account for bug reports "shortly after"
a dist-upgrade. Does this suggest any explanations to you?

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[Claude Charest (pantherecharest)]

Bonjour,

With Ubuntu 11.4 I did not have this problem. But before 11.4, when the "update-manager" process was run and did install a new kernel, all was fine at first but after the installation of the new kernel I have to reboot and then my Ubuntu was lost ! I only see Windows XP.

N.B.: I haved installed Ubuntu with WUBI.

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Envoyé le : Lundi 8 Août 2011 18h47
Objet : Re: [Bug 511463] Re: grub-pc failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - frontend: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 08:31:17PM -0000, Brian Murray wrote:
> 3 of the 5 11.04 bug reports occurred during or shortly after performing
> a distribution upgrade to 11.04.

For reports happening during the dist-upgrade, the occurrence could be
explained by having the pre-upgrade version of the debconf frontend still
running.  I don't see how this would account for bug reports "shortly after"
a dist-upgrade.  Does this suggest any explanations to you?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511463

Title:
  grub-pc failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - frontend: Fatal IO
  error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  Update manager attempted to update my system but hung with questions
  for grub.  When I restarted my computer the version.16 failed to start
  and the system reverted back to the shell.  I was able to do an 'ctrl'
  'alt' 'delete' and chose the older.14 and got my computer started up.
  Went to update manager to try rerunning updates but got an error
  message stating that I must "manually" run 'sudo dpkg--configure-a'.
  I am new to linux and do not know how to perform these steps properly.

  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jan 21 07:32:36 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
  Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Tags:  ubuntu-unr...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

When I said shortly after I believe I was referring to bug 790498 where the upgradestatus indicated 2 days ago but the error date was actually from those 2 days ago. So I think all of these did happen during a dist-upgrade.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Based on the lack of recent occurences of this bug with anything newer than Natty I am setting theis bug report to Invalid.