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nevercome
November 2nd, 2014, 01:54 PM
Hello everybody,
i couldn't complete a release upgrade from 12.04 server to 14.04 with do-release-upgrade, exiting with a grub error status:



Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 3.2.0-41-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-41-generic
update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-41-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 3.2.0-41-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-41-generic
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `none'.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postrm.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-41-generic.postrm line 328.
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.2.0-41-generic (--remove):
il sottoprocesso installato script di post-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
Removing linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic (3.2.0-56.86) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 3.2.0-56-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-56-generic
update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-56-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 3.2.0-56-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-56-generic
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `none'.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postrm.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic.postrm line 328.
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic (--remove):
il sottoprocesso installato script di post-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1


typing a dpkg --configure -a :



> dpkg --configure -a
Configurazione di samba-common (2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3)...
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d’: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package samba-common (--configure):
il sottoprocesso installato script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
dpkg: problemi con le dipendenze impediscono la configurazione di smbclient:
smbclient dipende da samba-common (= 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3); comunque:
Il pacchetto samba-common non è ancora configurato.

dpkg: error processing package smbclient (--configure):
problemi con le dipendenze - lasciato non configurato
Configurazione di grub-pc (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1)...
Including Xen overrides from /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg
WARNING: GRUB_DEFAULT changed to boot into Xen by default!
Edit /etc/default/grub.d/xen.cfg to avoid this warning.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `none'.
dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure):
il sottoprocesso installato script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
dpkg: problemi con le dipendenze impediscono la configurazione di samba-common-bin:
samba-common-bin dipende da samba-common (= 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3); comunque:
Il pacchetto samba-common non è ancora configurato.

dpkg: error processing package samba-common-bin (--configure):
problemi con le dipendenze - lasciato non configurato
Si sono verificati degli errori nell'elaborazione:
samba-common
smbclient
grub-pc
samba-common-bin
>


or update-grub:



> update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `none'.


grub was working fine and being updated correctly before the do-release-upgrade .


> parted -l
Model: Adaptec 6405E RAID10 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3994GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 20,5GB 20,5GB ext4 msftdata
2 20,5GB 21,0GB 512MB linux-swap(v1)
3 21,0GB 3994GB 3973GB lvm

(other device-mapper LVM partitions follow)


I'm not sure how to proceed, since it's a remote dedicated server i didn't try a reboot yet .
Any help would be very appreciated. Thank you all.