Comment 18 for bug 269539

Hi Brian

Did you intend to send this to me? I'm the bug filer not the people
resolving it?

In my case, the system did work afterwards but with the old kernel, and I
was then able to do a force of the new kernel.

I'm actually very experienced with linux so I am able to pretty much resolve
all of this stuff myself, but I filed the bug in case it was affecting other
people

Joel

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Brian King <email address hidden> wrote:

> I just got this on an 8.04->8.10 upgrade. Attaching menu.lst, menu.lst
> .ucf-new to come.
>
> ** Attachment added: "menu.lst"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19729226/menu.lst
>
> --
> package linux-image-2.6.27-3-generic failed to install/upgrade: "Conflicts
> found! Please edit `/var/run/grub/menu.lst' and sort them out manually."
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269539
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in "grub" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in "ucf" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 8.10 failed to install 2.6.27.3 kernal during update
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
>
> During a kernel upgrade, under certain conditions, if the user select "Do a
> 3-way merge" for menu.lst then the following error occurs:
>
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-3-generic
> Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-3-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/last-good-boot/vmlinuz
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-2-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> Merging changes into the new version
>
> Conflicts found! Please edit `/var/run/grub/menu.lst' and sort them out
> manually.
> The file `/var/run/grub/menu.lst.ucf-new' has a record of the failed merge
> of the configuration file.
>
> User postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 3
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-3-generic (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
>
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