package linux-image-2.6.32-29-generic 2.6.32-29.58 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Leshy]

Binary package hint: grub

Suspect there is a bug in the way this package failed to install. Please look at this, & if it is one, please develop a fix. If it is not a bug, please advize the computer journalist community, so they can write up a brief article, allaying potential user fears. Not sure if this is a security bug, so will click the box below, identifying it as such, just in case it crashes my system on reboot !

Thanx

Les K
<email address hidden>

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-29-generic 2.6.32-29.58
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-29.57-generic 2.6.32.28+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-29-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 17 13:35:02 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
SourcePackage: grub
Title: package linux-image-2.6.32-29-generic 2.6.32-29.58 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Leshy (l-kobiernicki)]

Please advize all users, if this bug is generic - ie. affects more than just myself. Everyone should be aware of the potential problem - and any adverse effects it may have - if it is something that might compromize their own OSs !

Thanx

Les K

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Leshy (l-kobiernicki)]

On 17/02/11 17:49, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability
>
Fine, agreed

UBUNTU booted beautifully (as ever) after the update

What a wonderful OS Linux provides

I wouldn't change it for the world

All the best,

Les

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" The power of this life, if men will open their hearts to it, will heal
them, will create them anew, physically and spiritually. Here is the
gospel of earth, ringing with hope, like May mornings with bird-song,
fresh and healthy as fields of young grain. But those who would be
healed must absorb it not only into their bodies in daily food and
warmth but into their minds, because its spiritual power is more
intense. It is not reasonable to suppose that an essence so divine and
mysterious as life can be confined to material things; therefore, if our
bodies need to be in touch with it so do our minds. The joy of a spring
day revives a man's spirit, reacting healthily on the bone and the
blood, just as the wholesome juices of plants cleanse the body, reacting
on the mind. Let us join in the abundant sacrament--for our bodies the
crushed gold of harvest and ripe vine-clusters, for our souls the purple
fruit of evening with its innumerable seed of stars ". Vis Medicatrix
Naturae, by Mary Webb, in Spring of Joy: Nature Essays, Constable,
London, 1917