problems upgrading 14.04 to 14.10 (configuration failures in sysv-rc & grub packages)

[Adam Funk]

On 2014-11-04, Marius Gedminas wrote:

Using various arrangements of

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get autoremove

I have now reached the point where all of them say there's nothing
left to do.  Can I now safely conclude that the machine in question is
completely upgraded to 14.10, or are there any more tests to try?

Thanks!