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grub2 package

Karmic Koala Upgrade Uninstalls Grub 2

Bug #449679 reported by Jamie Kitson on 2009-10-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub2 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic uninstalled Grub 2 and reinstalled Grub 1. The latest kernel was also not added to menu.lst (see bug 407750). Once I had reinstalled Grub 2 the latest kernel was added to menu.lst. Unfortunately my /var/log/dist-upgrade/ directory is empty.

To reproduce:

Have a system running Jaunty (kernel 2.6.28) and Grub 2.
Upgrade to Karmic Koala.

Expected:

A system booting Grub 2 and kernel 2.6.31.

What happened:

A system booting Grub 1 and kernel 2.6.28.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 12 17:37:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.126
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

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Related branches

lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/lucid/grub2/lucid

lp:ubuntu/lucid/grub2

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Jamie Kitson (jamie-kitson) wrote on 2009-10-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (695 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-13:

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please attach the logs from /var/log/dist-upgrade/* ?

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jamie Kitson (jamie-kitson) wrote on 2009-10-13:

Unfortunately that directory is empty.

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Daniel Drummond (dmdrummondx) wrote on 2009-10-13:

I had this problem too. Installed Jaunty from the alternate install cd, and was asked if I wanted to install Grub 2. Figured I would to save any hassle later. Then I ran an upgrade to Karmic, which installed grub 1, and didn't update the menu.lst with the correct kernel. Had to edit the grub boot lines to boot the correct one.

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Jamie Kitson (jamie-kitson) wrote on 2009-10-13:

Daniel, do you have anything you can post in /var/log/dist-upgrade/?

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Raph (rabelanger) wrote on 2009-10-20:

Same thing happened to me, I was running Jaunty with Grub 2. Got an error with memtest while installing upgrade and a few errors at the very end of update. Then a few errors had then end of the update. Couldnt boot after. Same for me, directory /var/log/dist-upgrade/ is empty.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2009-10-26:

I tried recreating this by upgrade a Jaunty system to Karmic today and grub2 was still installed and grub was not. Additionally, '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' did exist.

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Jamie Kitson (jamie-kitson) wrote on 2009-10-26:

/var/log/apt/term.log Edit (735.7 KiB, application/octet-stream)

Is the dist-upgrade directory used by apt or a gnome application? I used apt-get dist-upgrade. I did find /var/log/apt/term.log which may be of use.

Cheers, Jamie

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-27:

@Raph: the memtest that gave errors during install is fixed.

@Jamie: thanks for the log. it shows indeed that grub2 is removed. But unfortunately it does not tell why apt did it. The release upgrade writes out the "problemResolver" log so that those issues can be better analyized. I will try to reproduce the removal in a VM now.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-27:

#10

debdiff with proposed fix Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → In Progress
affects:	update-manager (Ubuntu) → grub2 (Ubuntu)
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-27:

#11

Its enough to just change the override file, I subscribe ubuntu-archive for this. It just needs a change from priority "extra" to "optional" (to match the priority of grub).

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2009-10-27:

#12

I've bumped the priority of grub2 source and the grub-{pc,common} binaries in the karmic archive to 'optional'. That will take care of this problem for any users upgradng from the network, but this problem may still affect anyone upgrading from a local karmic alternate CD, since those are not expected to be regenerated between now and release.

It's appropriate to get the priority as listed in the source package updated, but this is not at all urgent.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Triaged
importance:	Medium → Low

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2010-02-04

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-02-04:

#13

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.98~20100128-1ubuntu2

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grub2 (1.98~20100128-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * Change the priority to optional to match the priority of grub. This
    prevents grub-pc getting removed in favour of grub (LP: #449679).

[ Colin Watson ]
* Stop the postinst failing if there are no devices.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:44:29 -0800