package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Thomas Dreibholz]

Error occurred on do-release-upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 5 16:52:19 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:memtest86+:4.20-1.1ubuntu5:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-12 (481 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-02-05 (0 days ago)

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

From the logs, it's fairly clear that update-grub is failing on that machine. It's not entirely obvious why, however.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]