any upgrade of grub-common and/or grub-pc crashes my computer

[Fred Schroeder]

Binary package hint: grub-common

I was a first time installer on a windows PC using wubi installer and using ubuntu for several months.
Everything worked fine and I have a saved image file for 9.10 ubuntu with the wubi.exe file on windows.
I copy wubi.exe and the appropriate .iso image in a windows file and run wubi to install.
when ubuntu powers up, I need to make sure to unplug the internet connection to prevent
automatic updates. Once it boots up, I can use update manager, do a check, then load all
updates, except for grub-common and grub-pc. Everything works great. If I try at all to
ugrade either of these files, then I need to scrub everything and completely start over.

I cannot upgrade to 10.04 I believe because the grub-pc an grub-common files are automatically
upgraded in the iso image for 10.04 and I cannot deselect it.

The Update manager insists it is a security update for these two items.

If running 9.10 and get errors, it happens in the bash prompt while rebooting.
If I ran a clean version of wubi with 10.04 or use 9.10 update manager, then ubuntu environment
powers up then locks up and I need to goto windows and uninstall ubuntu and start over with 9.10
running wubi and when computer reboots, then unplug ethernet port to prevent system from automatic
updates.

from About Ubuntu
You are using Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011.

I am using a compaq nw8000 laptop computer with plenty of hard drive space.

Synaptic 0.62.5 Package management

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 14 12:36:48 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

9.10 and wubi are no longer supported.