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bhruska - Wed, 2021/05/19 - 19:15

Not sure what this error is, but its being reported on all my Turnkey - Wordpress servers.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brian

 

CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Tue May 18 15:56:01 UTC 2021 CRON-APT SLEEP: 2555, Tue May 18 16:38:36 UTC 2021 CRON-APT ACTION: 5-install CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get -o quiet=1 dist-upgrade -q -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/security.sources.list -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts=nonexistent -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold Setting up grub-pc (2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4) ...

You must correct your GRUB install devices before proceeding:

 

  DEBIAN_FRONTEND=dialog dpkg --configure grub-pc

  dpkg --configure -a

dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure):

 installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing:

 grub-pc

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Jeremy Davis - Thu, 2021/05/20 - 01:25

It's a known issue - please see the blog post for more info and how to resolve.

If you have any problems with that or anything is unclear, please post back and I'll clarify.

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bhruska - Thu, 2021/05/20 - 17:39

I tried what was in the other Post, but it reported this:

 

GRUB failed to install to the following devices:

/dev/sda1

Do you want to continue anyway? If you do, your computer may not start
up properly.

Writing GRUB to boot device failed — continue?

 

Thanks,

Brian

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Jeremy Davis - Fri, 2021/05/21 - 01:11

Hmm, that's a different message to any I saw when testing?

Having said that, /dev/sda1 is a partition and it really only needs to be installed to the boot disk (not partitions). IIRC you are running a VM, right? So unless you've added a disk, you should only have one disk and it should be /dev/sda. As the only disk, it has to be your boot disk! :)

Assuming above, it should be fine, so long as it's installed to /dev/sda (i.e. the disk /dev/sda, not the partition /dev/sda1). You should be safe to just jump to the 'grub-install' line below, but if you want to be sure, then double check that /dev/sda is your only disk:

fdisk -l | grep '^Disk /dev/sd'

On a machine I have handy that has a 20 GB root volume and no other disks I get:

Disk /dev/sda: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors

Assuming you only get one line that looks somewhat similar to that, then you are all good.

Now (re)install grub to /dev/sda:

grub-install /dev/sda

That should output this (it will use the i386-pc module even on an amd64 machine):

Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.

You shouldn't need to update it as well, but just to be sure, feel free to also run:

update-grub

This will list any/all kernels that are installed, so something like this (my example is v16.x with just the latest kernel, your list may be longer):

Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-16-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-16-amd64
done
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Jeremy Davis - Tue, 2021/06/29 - 03:37

It's weird that you are still experiencing this issue after following the fix instructions?! All I can recommend is re-running this command:

dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

Just select OK for any/all questions until you get to the "GRUB install locations" screen (as per below).

Be sure to select "/dev/sda" (use tab key to switch focus, up/down arrows to select the /dev/sda line and spacebar to allow grub to be installed to it).

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