package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.26 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

update-grub failed.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help to improve Ubuntu.

Please attach a copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

Don't know whether you wanted me to attach the file and send it to you,
but I'm doing it anyway ! If you want me to send it elsewhere, let me
know.
Thanks.

JOHN

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 00:58 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help to improve
> Ubuntu.
>
> Please attach a copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
>
> ** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:53:22PM -0000, JFMurphy wrote:
> Don't know whether you wanted me to attach the file and send it to you,
> but I'm doing it anyway ! If you want me to send it elsewhere, let me
> know.
> Thanks.

Ok, I'm able to reproduce this error: you have 'updatedefaultentry=true' set
in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and you appears to also have 'default' set in
/boot/grub/default. This combination is unsupported (it's meaningless,
really); you should either set updatedefaultentry to false (the default
behavior), or you should use 'grub-set-default' to set a numeric default
boot option.

It is, of course, a bug that update-grub gives this error instead of a more
meaningful message. I think this bug has been reported before; I'll track
down the other report and put it on the TODO list.

Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
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