Comment 6 for bug 297167

thank you for your kind follow up...

here is the out put i got

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~$ sudo DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer sh -x /usr/sbin/update-grub ; echo $?
+ set -e
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+ [ ! ]
+ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
+ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
+ [ ]
+ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/sbin/update-grub
debconf (developer): frontend started
debconf (developer): Trying to find a templates file..
debconf (developer): Trying /usr/sbin/update-grub.templates
debconf (developer): Trying /usr/share/debconf/templates/update-grub.templates
debconf (developer): Couldn't find a templates file.
debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is
debconf (developer): starting /usr/sbin/update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
debconf (developer): <-- X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub.templates grub
debconf (developer): --> 0
debconf (developer): <-- X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE /var/lib/dpkg/info/ucf.templates ucf
debconf (developer): --> 10 failed to open /var/lib/dpkg/info/ucf.templates: No such file or directory
10

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the directory is there:

$ ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/
total 5164
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-12-06 15:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 57 root root 4096 2008-12-03 02:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-04 21:33 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268820 2008-12-06 15:50 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268820 2008-12-05 04:43 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 2008-04-22 20:49 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98 2008-07-05 08:12 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 2008-07-05 08:12 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 262144 2008-12-05 04:41 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2008-12-07 07:50 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-13 04:50 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 2008-04-22 21:01 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2008-04-22 20:59 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1478798 2008-12-06 15:50 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1446285 2008-10-28 19:58 status.backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1478798 2008-12-05 04:43 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-05 01:09 triggers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-06 15:50 updates

thanks again...