Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed
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 not remove it myself. I mean why would I want to do
> that?!?! Nevertheless this is an issue now.
Take a look at /var/log/apt/history.log* to see the reason
and/or the occasion (but not necessarily the intent).¹
As an example of how things can happen unintentionally, this
post from Tuesday illustrates where a broken package's bug
report seems to have led to a different package being removed:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/06/msg00581.html
> 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...!?!?
Only if you'd gone ahead and removed all those other packages.
There's actually nothing substantial inside grub-efi-amd64:
$ dpkg -L grub-efi-amd64
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/grub-efi-amd64
/usr/share/bug/grub-efi-amd64/presubj
/usr/share/bug/grub-efi-amd64/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/grub-efi-amd64
$
> How to fix that? Is there actually something wrong (this morning grub
> was there!!!) that needs to be fixed?
> Is it sa[f]e to just reinstall grub-efi-amd64?
Yes. The package exists for its dependencies. Just reinstall it.
You can then try autoremove again, and its list should now only
include the (presumably third) versions of the kernel packages
that you wanted to remove as a matter of routine, like mine in ¹.
¹ entries in /var/log/apt/history.log look like:
Start-Date: 2021-06-19 17:45:10
Commandline: apt-get --purge autoremove
Purge: linux-headers-4.19.0-14-amd64:amd64 (4.19.171-2), linux-headers-4.19.0-14-common:amd64 (4.19.171-2), linux-image-4.19.0-14-amd64:amd64 (4.19.171-2)
End-Date: 2021-06-19 17:45:33
Cheers,
David.
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