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memtest86+ package

package memtest86+ 2.11-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: "Can't open /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib"

Bug #446916 reported by ariel cornejo on 2009-10-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #459080: upgrade failure (jaunty to karmic) in memtest86 postinst. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	memtest86+ (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: memtest86+

I got this while upgrading to Karmic. It appears three times in apt-term.log:
Selecting previously deselected package memtest86+.
Preparing to replace memtest86+ 2.11-3ubuntu1 (using .../memtest86+_2.11-3ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement memtest86+ ...
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-020631-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-020631-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-12-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-020630-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-020630-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
.: 8: Can't open /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...

And further down the same file:
dpkg: error processing memtest86+ (--configure):
package memtest86+ is already installed and configured

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 8 23:08:06 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: package memtest86+ is already installed and configured
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: memtest86+ 2.11-3ubuntu1
SourcePackage: memtest86+
Title: package memtest86+ 2.11-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-020631-generic i686

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ariel cornejo (arielco) wrote on 2009-10-09:

VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (7.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (57.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (13.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (59.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (698 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2010-01-15:

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 459080, 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.