package grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.12 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Alex Murray]

Received error after installing latest updates.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-27.30~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 1 09:57:09 2017
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-07 (174 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.10.0-27-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--gnome--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
 apt 1.2.24
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package grub-common 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.12 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please check to see if the command 'plymouth --ping' continues to hang in a terminal. In the event that it does it would help us out if you could run it under strace e.g. 'strace plymouth --ping' so that we can determine why the process is hanging. Thanks for your assistance!

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Hi Brian - I have since done a clean reinstall (due to this an other issues) and the issue is not present any more on the new installation (plymouth --ping is fine) - I wonder if something perhaps got corrupted in the old install?

Anyway, I appreciate you looking into it - will close as invalid.