Comment 9 for bug 1723451

$ sudo apt install --reinstall grub-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/1,769 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 247828 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7) over (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
Job for grub-common.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status grub-common.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript grub-common, action "start" failed.
● grub-common.service - LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/grub-common; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2017-12-17 00:36:49 GMT; 13ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 12877 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/grub-common start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/grub-common.service
           └─12881 plymouth --ping

Dec 17 00:31:49 marcel systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB...
Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB.
Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
dpkg: error processing package grub-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for systemd (234-2ubuntu12.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grub-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)