package friendly-recovery 0.2.18 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

[Marten van de Sanden]

A number of packages failed during upgrade to 11.10, this is one of them.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.18
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 21 19:21:37 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
Title: package friendly-recovery 0.2.18 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-20 (2 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz:

Setting up friendly-recovery (0.2.18) ...
/etc/default/grub: 1: 1: not found
dpkg: error processing friendly-recovery (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Reviewing your log files attached to this bug report it seems that there is a problem in the configuration of your '/etc/default/grub' file. Keep in mind than any kernel parameters should have double quotes around them like so: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash". Please review your changes to '/etc/default/grub' and try running 'sudo update-grub' again. In the event they you are able to resolve your issue please set this bug's status to Invalid. If you are not able to resolve the issue please attach the file '/etc/default/grub' to the bug report. Thanks and good luck!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]