Bug#425054: Postinst failure - grub-set-default does not exist

Matthew William Solloway Bell m.w.s.bell at durham.ac.uk
Fri May 18 18:06:13 UTC 2007


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.95+20070507-1
Severity: Grave
Justification: Fails to complete installation

I receive the following output when installing grub-pc:

Setting up grub-pc (1.95+20070507-1) ...
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image:  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-amd64
Found linux image:  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7
Found linux image:  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1-k7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-1-k7
done
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ...
found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found GRUB 2: /boot/grub/core.img
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1-k7
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amd64
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... Updating the default booting kernel
/usr/lib/grub-legacy/update-grub: line 1162: grub-set-default: command
not found
dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grub-pc

On a quick look around, I can't find a grub-set-default binary except in
grub. I guess this script needs reworking?

Matthew W. S. Bell
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