grub.cfg is not updated

[RoyK]

It seems grub.cfg isn't always updated. I just upgraded this machine, and even though it had recent kernels installed, the grub.cfg hadn't been updated for a year. Also, removing kernels show this error, apt-get remove --purge linux-image-2.6.32-25-server rendered my system onbootable, because grub.cfg was not updated. Running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg fixes the problem, but this really should be fixed. Flagging this a security issue, since new kernels may be installed, but not used. This may be related to #447696

[RoyK (roysk)]

I see this on a number of machines, all running Lucid. I haven't tried to upgrade any of these to post-lucid versions.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 202009, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[RoyK (roysk)]

All the machines I have that show this are installed with Lucid from scratch. There is no upgrade involved.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This seemed like the same issue I saw before, if I marked it as a duplicate in error, please let me know.