[Bug 1560130] [NEW] Grub reports conflict in sector usage.

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Public bug reported:

I have just now removed some old kernels.  I did an update-grub, but 
  grub-install /dev/sda
is reporting an odd error that I've never seen before:

root at roisin:~# grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: Sector 50 is already in use by the program `FlexNet'; avoiding it.  This software may cause boot or other problems in future.  Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.

I do not know what FlexNet is.  Synaptic does not either.  This machine
has stock Windows 7 and Xubuntu partitions only, and that's all it ever
had (well, earlier Windows and Kubuntu, but a long time ago).

At the very least, I'd like grub to report more information that might
help me figure out what's going on.  Or is there some malware that it
just discovered.  As it stands, I can't tell and don't know how to
investigate.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: grub-pc 2.02~beta2-29ubuntu0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-34.39-generic 4.2.8-ckt4
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Mar 21 09:50:00 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-16 (430 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140723)
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-02 (140 days ago)

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug wily

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Title:
  Grub reports conflict in sector usage.

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have just now removed some old kernels.  I did an update-grub, but 
    grub-install /dev/sda
  is reporting an odd error that I've never seen before:

  root at roisin:~# grub-install /dev/sda
  Installing for i386-pc platform.
  grub-install: warning: Sector 50 is already in use by the program `FlexNet'; avoiding it.  This software may cause boot or other problems in future.  Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.

  I do not know what FlexNet is.  Synaptic does not either.  This
  machine has stock Windows 7 and Xubuntu partitions only, and that's
  all it ever had (well, earlier Windows and Kubuntu, but a long time
  ago).

  At the very least, I'd like grub to report more information that might
  help me figure out what's going on.  Or is there some malware that it
  just discovered.  As it stands, I can't tell and don't know how to
  investigate.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: grub-pc 2.02~beta2-29ubuntu0.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-34.39-generic 4.2.8-ckt4
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-34-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Mon Mar 21 09:50:00 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-16 (430 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140723)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-02 (140 days ago)

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