I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 virtualized under Xen and the grub-pc
package is broken and apt-get
notifies me every time I run it.
I just want to configure apt-get / aptitude to ignore this package permanently.
How do I do this?
Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up grub-pc (1.98-1ubuntu7) ... dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc
Best Answer
or, through aptitude, you can mark the package as hold
However, since they are moving forward with grub2, you might take a look at the .postinst file to see why it is failing.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst
put set -x somewhere below their initial bits of code then do:
and post the error message reported.
also, post the output from