Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Markus wrote: > I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this: > > markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be ins

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-08 at 04:21, Markus wrote: > Am 07.07.21 um 12:27 schrieb Markus: >> markus@bmtMB1:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ ls >> apt-listbugs >> markus@bmtMB1:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cat apt-listbugs >> >> Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2021-03-06 12:05:35 +0100 >> Explanation: #984520: 'err

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-08 Thread Anssi Saari
Markus writes: > Hi guys, it is nice that from all of this a little discussion took of. > But what can I actually do to fix my problem here? Any suggestions? What was the problem again? Just the suggestion to run apt autoremove which probably isn't a good idea now? Easiest is probably waiting u

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-08 Thread Markus
Am 07.07.21 um 12:27 schrieb Markus: Am 07.07.21 um 09:24 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: On Mi, 07 iul 21, 08:21:17, Markus wrote: Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge: On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: grub-efi-amd64:     Installed: (none)     Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+de

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-07 Thread Anssi Saari
The Wanderer writes: > #990082 is for shim-signed, and it does seem to be closed now, but if > I'm reading the discussion correctly that's not the package we're > concerned with. True, especially as #990082 is specific to ARM. > $984520 is for grub-efi-amd64, which I think is the package we're

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-07 at 08:19, Anssi Saari wrote: > Markus writes: > >> So it seems that apt-listbugs has done the pinning. Right? > > Right and while I've never used apt-listbugs, it should've asked you > what to do when you updated your system? Since the issue concerns > ARM based systems only, bi

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Markus writes: > So it seems that apt-listbugs has done the pinning. Right? Right and while I've never used apt-listbugs, it should've asked you what to do when you updated your system? Since the issue concerns ARM based systems only, binning was not the correct choice. As the bug is fixed now

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 08:21:17AM +0200, Markus wrote: > Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: > > > grub-efi-amd64: > > >Installed: (none) > > >Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > > >Version table: > > > 2.02+dfsg1

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-07 Thread Markus
Am 07.07.21 um 09:24 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: On Mi, 07 iul 21, 08:21:17, Markus wrote: Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge: On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: grub-efi-amd64: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 Version table: 2.02+d

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 07 iul 21, 08:21:17, Markus wrote: > Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: > > > grub-efi-amd64: > > >Installed: (none) > > >Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > > >Version table: > > > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 50

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-07-06 Thread Markus
Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge: On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: grub-efi-amd64: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 Version table: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: > grub-efi-amd64: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > Version table: > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500 > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages > 500 http://security.debian.org

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Markus
More information: markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt policy grub-efi-amd64 grub-common grub2-common grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 Version table: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main a

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 05:06:50PM +0200, Markus wrote: > I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this: > > markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be i

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Markus
I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this: markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situati

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Markus
Thank you, David, for the very useful hint. I found this in apt history: Start-Date: 2021-03-06 21:08:42 Commandline: apt full-upgrade Requested-By: markus (1000) Upgrade: grub-common:amd64 (2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3, 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4), grub2-common:amd64 (2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3, 2.02+dfsg1-20+

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Nicolas George
David Wright (12021-06-24): > Only if you'd gone ahead and removed all those other packages. Not even then. The GRUB packages are useful for installing the GRUB bootloader. Once it's installed, the computer will boot, and the package are not necessary, although they might be useful to automaticall

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 08:49:40 (+0200), Markus wrote: > Am 23.06.21 um 18:08 schrieb David Wright: > > On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 17:01:07 (+0200), Markus wrote: > > > rc  grub-efi-amd64 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > >↑↑ There's your problem. It's been removed (but not purged). > Ok so...hmmm...I did no

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 08:49:40AM +0200, Markus wrote: > Ok so...hmmm...I did not remove it myself. I mean why would I want to do > that?!?! Nevertheless this is an issue now. > Interestingly when booting my computer this morning grub was there and > booted into Buster. Shouldn't it be gone if it

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-23 Thread Markus
Ok so...hmmm...I did not remove it myself. I mean why would I want to do that?!?! Nevertheless this is an issue now. Interestingly when booting my computer this morning grub was there and booted into Buster. Shouldn't it be gone if it got removed (even though it not got purged)? Hmmm...!?!? How t

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 17:01:07 (+0200), Markus wrote: > Am 23.06.21 um 16:43 schrieb David Wright: > > Has grub-efi-amd64 been accidentally removed? AIUI that's the package > > which depends on having the packages to boot your machine. > No, not that I am aware of. But here is the ouput of > > ma

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-23 Thread Markus
No, not that I am aware of. But here is the ouput of markus@bmtMB1:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep grub ii  grub-common 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4    amd64    GRand Unified Bootloader (common files) rc  grub-efi-amd64 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3    amd64    GRand Unifi

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-23 Thread David Wright
Please post as text, not *just* html. On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 15:55:04 (+0200), Markus wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells > me that: > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no > longer req

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:55:04PM +0200, Markus wrote: >Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells me >that: > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common > li

apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-23 Thread Markus
Hi, just before and also after today's "apt full-upgrade" apt tells me that: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common libappindicator3-1 libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk