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kernel postinst.d zz-update-grub fail
Posted March 30, 2013

Somehow we got here with squeeze.

Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (2.6.32-48squeeze1) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting the default boot entry to 0
entry not specified.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64.postinst line 799,  line 2.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Seems to be fixed by
sudo grub-set-default 0
sudo apt-get install