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I guess this won't help very many people, but if you're encountering this in VirtualBox like I do you can get passed the update if you have a backup of your image.
Paul Brown wrote that he thinks that grub setup wants to open a terminal-like window. Thank you for that comment. Because of that I tried doing "sudo apt-get upgrade" in a terminal window instead of using the software updater. And as he had predicted, after a while I got a window looking similar to the traditional Linux installation gui where I got to choose which harddrive or partition to put grub on, I chose one and then the update completed. I just rebooted and seems to work fine.
Of course this doesn't solve the problem for anyone who gets it on a "real" computer and/or without backup, but I thought it worth mentioning here for people using VirtualBox.