$ sudo apt install --reinstall grub-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/1,769 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 247828 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb ... Unpacking grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7) over (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Job for grub-common.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status grub-common.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript grub-common, action "start" failed. ● grub-common.service - LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/grub-common; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2017-12-17 00:36:49 GMT; 13ms ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 12877 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/grub-common start (code=killed, signal=TERM) Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/grub-common.service └─12881 plymouth --ping
Dec 17 00:31:49 marcel systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB... Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Record successful boot for GRUB. Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Unit entered failed state. Dec 17 00:36:49 marcel systemd[1]: grub-common.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. dpkg: error processing package grub-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for systemd (234-2ubuntu12.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: grub-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723451 Title: package grub-common 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1723451/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs