[Bug 1178534] Re: error processing grub-efi-amd64 (2.00-13ubuntu3) in 13.04

[Neil Gunther]

Hi 
 
I'm experiencing the same problem with Grub uefi.  My system is a single OS rig with Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 installed using the 3.10 kernel (issues with a 7750 graphics card!).   The Grub issue was also present before I upgraded the kernel from the Ubuntu kernel ppa.

 My system boots OK but wont upgrade Grub and other than some unrelated
performance issues works fine.  Having done some research people appear
to be having similar issues with Grub.

When I checked in Synaptic a number of Grub related packages were
installed some of which appear to be unnecessary.  Obviously I didn't
want to delete them and make my system unbootable, but was wondering
which packages are required.

Neil

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Title:
  error processing grub-efi-amd64 (2.00-13ubuntu3) in 13.04

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After a Windows install, I ran in to boot problems and tried running
  boot-repair. That's when I first encountered this error. That has been
  previously reported in Bug #1175018 (and one other bug, I think).

  However, after running boot-repair, I was able to boot the linux install on my hard drive. (It wasn't quite the same as before; there was no splash screen.) However, I'm stilling having the error. For example:
  ----------------------------
  leon at leon-UX32VD:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  2 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
  Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.00-13ubuntu3) ...
  dpkg: error processing grub-efi-amd64 (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-efi:
   grub-efi depends on grub-efi-amd64 (= 2.00-13ubuntu3); however:
    Package grub-efi-amd64 is not configured yet.

  dpkg: error processing grub-efi (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
   grub-efi-amd64
   grub-efi
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  ----------------------------
  Purging and then attempting to install again doesn't help.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.00-13ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May 10 00:17:05 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-14 (146 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (14 days ago)

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