apt wants to remove grub2 for machines that did upgrade legacy grub
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: apt
I upgraded some machines from jaunty to karmic. After grub2 chainload went successful I ran upgrade-
Now for every machine that has followed the scenario above, apt-get dist-upgrade now reports it wants to remove grub-pc, while fresh karmic installs don't report this.
So I reckon upgraders (from jaunty to karmic) that will install grub2 will encounter this problem, doesn't seem like apt is waiting for something cause grub-common is on the list for stuff to be upgraded.
A workaround for me was to remove (the old) grub (grub 1 that is) from the machines.... This removed grub-pc from the list of items to be removed and added grub-pc 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu8 to the list of items to be upgraded, in dist-upgrade.
I was under the assumption that upgrade-
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 7 19:15:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: apt 0.7.23.1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: apt
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
I ran dist-upgrade (without removing grub1) from a test-machine: grub2 gets removed and it looks like it's falling back to grub1. grub2 is not installed according to synaptic and it(grub1 ?) is skipping the menu list at start-up.