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while do-release-upgrade from ubuntu 20 package usrmerge 25ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: installed usrmerge package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Bug #1989491 reported by Martin Ruskov on 2022-09-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1930573: usrmerge error after upgrading from 20.10 to 21.04. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	usrmerge (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

While doing the upgrade, the problem occurred while trying to merge grub configuration

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: usrmerge 25ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-125.141-generic 5.4.195
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-125-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Tue Sep 13 19:10:27 2022
ErrorMessage: installed usrmerge package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-02 (2202 days ago)
InstallationMedia:

PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.10, Python 3.10.4, python3-minimal, 3.10.4-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: N/A
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.21.1ubuntu2.1
apt 2.4.7
SourcePackage: usrmerge
Title: package usrmerge 25ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: installed usrmerge package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-09-13 (0 days ago)

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Martin Ruskov (mapto) wrote on 2022-09-13:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (43.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (61.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (140.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (161.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (587 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (723 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2022-09-13

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Martin Ruskov (mapto) wrote on 2022-09-13:

"Both /sbin/grub-install and /usr/sbin/grub-install exist"
possibly related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usrmerge/+bug/1924850/comments/12

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Martin Ruskov (mapto) wrote on 2022-09-13:

This appears to have solved the problem: https://askubuntu.com/a/1334400

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Martin Ruskov (mapto) wrote on 2022-09-14:

Problem with installation of docker-ce remained.
usrmerge issue with grub-install. Manually changing links resulted in apt repetitive non-blocking issue: "sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory" and docker daemon still not starting.