Odd error report from grub-install

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:15:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >Consider to use a search engine, since it just takes a few seconds to
> >find hits, that lead to links such as the Wiki:
> >
> >"Issues with bootloaders
> >
> >Due to the way the digital rights management (DRM) works in FlexNet
> >Publisher, FlexNet affects bootloaders; this makes FlexNet Publisher
> >incompatible with drives encrypted with TrueCrypt[4][5] and renders
> >Linux-based systems unable to boot.[6][7] The Truecrypt developers also
> >state that "the issue is caused by inappropriate design of the
> >third-party activation software."[8]" -
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher#Issues_with_bootloaders
>
> PS: IOW You have got some software installed, e.g. from Adobe, on your
> "stock Windows 7" and Synaptic only handles your Linux packages and has
> got absolutely nothing to do with the "stock Windows 7" install. You
> should ask for support by the companies of the proprietary software you
> bought for your Windows install.
>
>
Actually, I do NOT have any adobe software (beyond acrobat plugins)
installed on this machine.  I'm not sure there ever were on this one, but
any that I have were parts of Design Premium 5 and were were uninstalled
over a year ago to move the licenses to another machine, and of them
Dreamweaver was the only one I used much.  So why they interfere now, after
all this time of active maintenance on the 'buntu install is beyond me.
And I don't use TrueCrypt, and I've never known what FlexNet is.  I just
searched for it and I am now quite sure I've never intentionally had it on
this machine.

What I was hoping for was someone with experience with this phenomenon.
Even now, I think Google searches haven't helped at all.

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Kevin O'Gorman
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