update-grub is in /usr/sbin, but kernel-img.conf looks for it in /sbin

[pablort]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic

It's looking for update-grub in /sbin, but it's actually in /usr/sbin

Setting up linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic (2.6.20-5.7) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-5-generic
W: mdadm: unchecked configuration file: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
W: mdadm: please read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz .
W: mdadm: no arrays defined in configuration file.
W: mdadm: falling back to emergency procedure in initramfs.
The provided postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] could not be run.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Btw, im using grub2 package:

# which update-grub
/usr/sbin/update-grub

# dpkg -S update-grub
grub2: /usr/sbin/update-grub
grub2: /usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz

DIRTY FIX:

ln -sf /usr/sbin/update-grub /sbin

[iKs (iks279)]

I seem to have update-grub in both /sbin and /usr/sbin and the 2.6.20-5-generic kernel works fine for me :

iks@max:~$ ls -l /sbin/update-grub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 616 2006-12-20 17:44 /sbin/update-grub
iks@max:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/update-grub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35685 2006-12-20 17:44 /usr/sbin/update-grub

iks@max:~$ uname -r
2.6.20-5-generic

I suppose you are using Feisty. Did you upgrade from an Edgy isntall or did you isntall it from scratch ?

[pablort (pablort)]

upgraded from edgy.

are you using grub2 package ?

On 1/8/07, iKs <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I seem to have update-grub in both /sbin and /usr/sbin and the
> 2.6.20-5-generic kernel works fine for me :
>
> iks@max:~$ ls -l /sbin/update-grub
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 616 2006-12-20 17:44 /sbin/update-grub
> iks@max:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/update-grub
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35685 2006-12-20 17:44 /usr/sbin/update-grub
>
> iks@max:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.20-5-generic
>
> I suppose you are using Feisty. Did you upgrade from an Edgy isntall or
> did you isntall it from scratch ?
>
> --
> Package: linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic fails to install
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/78478
>

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

1) The kernel does not create, nor provide maint. if the kernel-img.conf file, which is what tells the kernel post-inst to run this hook.
2) Grub2 should be compatible with grub1
3) Grub[12] should continue to provide this compatibility symlink until an automated upgrade for kernel-img.conf to the new location is in place. Users should not have to manually fix this.

[Felix Zielcke (fzielcke)]

As I just said in bug #385478, grub-legacy has a wrapper in /sbin/update-grub which tells people that it's deprecated and /usr/sbin/update-grub should be used instead.
Unfortunately it doestn't tell that it's probable /etc/kernel-img.conf which still uses it.
Anyway in current Debian experimental's grub2 we now run sed over it to change it.

[Felix Zielcke (fzielcke)]

The grub2 version which just edits /etc/kernel-img.conf is now in Ubuntu karmic.