Comment 31 for bug 484499

Thank you ver much, but I am Spanish and I don't understand nothing
2010/11/27 John McPherson <email address hidden>

> This fix does not resolve my bug (bug 676405). When I try upgrade-grub I
> get a syntax error: "newline unexpected"
>
> However can someone explain a little about grub to me?
> On my desktop I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on one partition of my drive
> and 10.10 installed in another. I use grub to choose between the two. How
> does this situation affect the grub-update function? Does the grub in the
> 1st menulist affect both distros? Is this type of install bad practice, am I
> better off having my development install in a virtual drive to minimise
> damage to my Ubuntu LTS distro?
>
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> [MASTER] syntax errors in /etc/default/grub break upgrades
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484499
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> of a duplicate bug (652278).
>
> Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “grub2” source package in Lucid: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: grub2
>
> Ubuntu 9.10
> grub-pc 1.97 constantly fails to update
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Nov 17 16:55:09 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 2
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: grub2
> Title: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
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*Pedro Miguel*