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grub2 package

package grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.3 failed to install/upgrade: installed grub-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Bug #1894597 reported by Stefan Krause-Kjær on 2020-09-07

This bug affects 15 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub2 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This happoned during a automated update through the GUI update prompt.
The system is running in a Hyper-v VM from windows 10

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: lkp_Ubuntu_5_4_0_42_46_generic_70
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Mon Sep 7 08:11:10 2020
ErrorMessage: installed grub-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-06-15 (83 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic root=UUID=1eac957e-3ea2-4b5c-b499-5b89baf8c790 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.2, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: N/A
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
apt 2.0.2ubuntu0.1
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.3 failed to install/upgrade: installed grub-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Stefan Krause-Kjær (stefan-krausekjaer) wrote on 2020-09-07:

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Stefan Krause-Kjær (stefan-krausekjaer) wrote on 2020-09-09:

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I believe I just observed the same issue again, and now have a log from that See below.
I've also come accross a simular issue here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1699520

"plymouth --ping" is also hanging for me, I will attach a strace

First the log which happoned as I used `apt` to install an other unrelated tool
$ sudo apt install net-tools
[sudo] password for skk:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gyp javascript-common libc-ares2 libfprint-2-tod1 libjs-inherits libjs-is-typedarray libjs-psl libjs-typedarray-to-buffer libllvm9 libnode-dev libnode64 libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libssl-dev libuv1-dev nodejs-doc python-pkg-resources
  python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  net-tools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 196 kB of archives.
After this operation, 864 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 net-tools amd64 1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1 [196 kB]
Fetched 196 kB in 0s (938 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package net-tools.
(Reading database ... 174869 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../net-tools_1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking net-tools (1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up net-tools (1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up grub-common (2.04-1ubuntu26.3) ...
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 "restart" failed.
● grub-common.service - LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/grub-common; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2020-09-09 08:32:40 CEST; 5ms ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 1985200 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/grub-common start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
      Tasks: 6 (limit: 23958)
     Memory: 4.0M
     CGroup: /system.slice/grub-common.service
             ├─ 421180 plymouth --ping
             ├─ 423955 plymouth --ping
             ├─ 434262 plymouth --ping
             ├─ 444489 plymouth --ping
             ├─1923087 plymouth --ping
             └─1985208 plymouth --ping

Sep 09 08:27:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB...
Sep 09 08:32:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: grub-common.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Sep 09 08:32:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Sep 09 08:32:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB.
dpkg: error processing package grub-common (--configure):
installed grub-common package post-installation script subproces...

I believe I just observed the same issue again, and now have a log from that See below.
I've also come accross a simular issue here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1699520

"plymouth --ping" is also hanging for me, I will attach a strace

First the log which happoned as I used `apt` to install an other unrelated tool
$ sudo apt install net-tools
[sudo] password for skk: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gyp javascript-common libc-ares2 libfprint-2-tod1 libjs-inherits libjs-is-typedarray libjs-psl libjs-typedarray-to-buffer libllvm9 libnode-dev libnode64 libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libssl-dev libuv1-dev nodejs-doc python-pkg-resources
  python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  net-tools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 196 kB of archives.
After this operation, 864 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 net-tools amd64 1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1 [196 kB]
Fetched 196 kB in 0s (938 kB/s)   
Selecting previously unselected package net-tools.
(Reading database ... 174869 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../net-tools_1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking net-tools (1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up net-tools (1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up grub-common (2.04-1ubuntu26.3) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

Sep 09 08:27:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB...
Sep 09 08:32:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: grub-common.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Sep 09 08:32:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Sep 09 08:32:40 PC-5928-Linux-VM systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB.
dpkg: error processing package grub-common (--configure):
 installed grub-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-efi-amd64-bin:
 grub-efi-amd64-bin depends on grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-efi-amd64-signed:
 grub-efi-amd64-signed depends on grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub-efi-amd64-bin is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub2-common:
 grub2-common depends on grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package grub2-common (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuratiNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                                                                       No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 No apport repor
t written because MaxReports is reached already
                                               No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                             on of grub-pc-bin:
 grub-pc-bin depends on grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package grub-pc-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-pc:
 grub-pc depends on grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub-common is not configured yet.
 grub-pc depends on grub2-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub2-common is not configured yet.
 grub-pc depends on grub-pc-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26.3); however:
  Package grub-pc-bin is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grub-common
 grub-efi-amd64-bin
 grub-efi-amd64-signed
 grub2-common
 grub-pc-bin
 grub-pc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

And the output of strace
strace plymouth --ping
execve("/bin/plymouth", ["plymouth", "--ping"], 0x7ffe1349c078 /* 54 vars */) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x55ee36d2b000
arch_prctl(0x3001 /* ARCH_??? */, 0x7fff2a9e2b70) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=66920, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 66920, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f790c946000
close(3)                                = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libply.so.5", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\0Z\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=113360, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f790c944000
mmap(NULL, 121376, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f790c926000
mmap(0x7f790c92b000, 61440, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x5000) = 0x7f790c92b000
mmap(0x7f790c93a000, 28672, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x14000) = 0x7f790c93a000
mmap(0x7f790c941000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1a000) = 0x7f790c941000
mmap(0x7f790c943000, 2592, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f790c943000
close(3)                                = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\360q\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
pread64(3, "\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 784, 64) = 784
pread64(3, "\4\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\5\0\0\0GNU\0\2\0\0\300\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 32, 848) = 32
pread64(3, "\4\0\0\0\24\0\0\0\3\0\0\0GNU\0cBR\340\305\370\2609W\242\345)q\235A\1"..., 68, 880) = 68
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2029224, ...}) = 0
pread64(3, "\6\0\0\0\4\0\0\0@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 784, 64) = 784
pread64(3, "\4\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\5\0\0\0GNU\0\2\0\0\300\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 32, 848) = 32
pread64(3, "\4\0\0\0\24\0\0\0\3\0\0\0GNU\0cBR\340\305\370\2609W\242\345)q\235A\1"..., 68, 880) = 68
mmap(NULL, 2036952, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f790c734000
mprotect(0x7f790c759000, 1847296, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f790c759000, 1540096, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x25000) = 0x7f790c759000
mmap(0x7f790c8d1000, 303104, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x19d000) = 0x7f790c8d1000
mmap(0x7f790c91c000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1e7000) = 0x7f790c91c000
mmap(0x7f790c922000, 13528, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f790c922000
close(3)                                = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0 \22\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18816, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 20752, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f790c72e000
mmap(0x7f790c72f000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x7f790c72f000
mmap(0x7f790c731000, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x3000) = 0x7f790c731000
mmap(0x7f790c732000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x3000) = 0x7f790c732000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f790c72b000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f790c72b740) = 0
mprotect(0x7f790c91c000, 12288, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f790c732000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f790c941000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x55ee34fac000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f790c984000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f790c946000, 66920)           = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {sa_handler=SIG_IGN, sa_mask=[PIPE], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, sa_restorer=0x7f790c77a210}, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[], sa_flags=0}, 8) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x55ee36d2b000
brk(0x55ee36d4c000)                     = 0x55ee36d4c000
epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC)            = 3
pipe2([4, 5], O_CLOEXEC)                = 0
epoll_ctl(3, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 4, {EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP, {u32=919778176, u64=94481610355584}}) = 0
epoll_ctl(3, EPOLL_CTL_MOD, 4, {EPOLLIN|EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP, {u32=919778176, u64=94481610355584}}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
read(6, "BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-4"..., 4095) = 118
close(6)                                = 0
socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 6
setsockopt(6, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PASSCRED, [1], 4) = 0
connect(6, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path=@"/org/freedesktop/plymouthd"}, 29

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Stefan Krause-Kjær (stefan-krausekjaer) wrote on 2020-09-10:

The issue resolved on my system by rebooting

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2021-01-26:

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

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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