Bug#708204: Upgrade fails with "source_dir doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory"

Matt Kraai kraai at ftbfs.org
Tue May 14 04:51:48 UTC 2013


Hi,

Here's a little more information about this bug: grub-yeeloong's
postinst runs grub-install with no arguments.  This causes
grub-install to try to autodetect the target based on the output of
"uname -m".  "uname -m" outputs "mips64" on my Lemote Yeeloong.  This
causes it to match the "mips"* pattern and sets target to "mips-arc".
/usr/lib/grub/mips-arc doesn't exist, so grub-install displays the
aforementioned error and exits.

-- 
Matt



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