Comment 3 for bug 561374

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Oswald (q8179670) wrote : Re: package grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu4 failed to upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script hangs

After 370 lines in the attached grub-pc.log, I had to kill grub-install (I could not kill grub-setup). pstree at that time was

bash─┬─frontend───grub-pc.postins───grub-install───grub-setup
     └─tee

In the end I had to kill frontend. Here's the pstree before the final killing began:

bash(22083)─┬─frontend(22100)───grub-pc.postins(22122)───grub-mkconfig(23466)───30_os-prober(23658)───30_os-prober(23670)─┬─os-prober(23671)───50mounted-tests(23744)───mount(23748)───mount.ntfs-3g(23749)
            │ ├─paste(23673)
            │ └─tr(23672)
            └─tee(22101)