Re: Bug#260136: grub-installer: fails in postinst (missing get_serial_console)

["yazdzik" <yazdzik@nyct.net>]

Same thing happened here, exact same error
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Package: grub-installer
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> grub-installer fails to install, with the following message in syslog:
>
> Jul 18 20:45:52 main-menu[298]: (process:25772):
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst: 7: get_serial_console: not found
>
> get_serial_console() is a function defined further down in the script,
> which appearently can't be run in a subshell in ash like line 7 tries to
> do:
>
> serial="$(get_serial_console)"
>
> Doing "touch /bin/get_serial_console ; chmod +x /bin/get_serial_console"
> makes the package work.
>
> -- System Information:
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
>
>