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Comment on How to restore GRUB using the Ubuntu Live CD by md imran

md imran — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:42:49 +0000

Hi.
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 as windows application long back using wubi.
Now when i restart my PC its giving the menu to select either windows or ubuntu.But when i cliked on ubuntu its giving the following error “Cannot find GRLDR”. Please tell me how to get out of this issue.Atleast how to get the ubuntu data backup.

Comment on About Me by AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:09:18 +0000

Thanks, you articles are quite helpful.

Comment on How to Fix “subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2″ Error by AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:05:24 +0000

Thank you so much! This error happened with my Flash installation so I was without Flash for days until I found this fix.

Comment on How to restore GRUB using the Ubuntu Live CD by erectine

erectine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:08:52 +0000

To too had a problem, stage 1 not found, but I did have to modify the hard disk parameters within setup.

Comment on How to Fix “subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2″ Error by Msz Junk

Msz Junk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:04:35 +0000

Thanks. This worked.

One small rectification though: your code
sudo cp /var/log/dpkg/status /var/log/dpkg/status.old

gksudo gedit /var/log/dpkg/status

should be (lib instead of log)

sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.old

gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

Comment on How to Fix “subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2″ Error by lamedp

lamedp — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:18:26 +0000

thanks. need the info how to disable a package lost after two updates !!

Comment on How to Fix “subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2″ Error by Alexandre Penchel

Alexandre Penchel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:49:07 +0000

Thank you, I had this problem and your post helped me.
Sucessfull operation.

Comment on How to build local APT repositories by Yudi Lee

Yudi Lee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:29:06 +0000

Thanks for this info, it help me a lot

Comment on How to Fix “subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2″ Error by Jon Hornstein

Jon Hornstein — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:21:22 +0000

I received the following error:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/python-gst0.10_0.10.14-1ubuntu1_i386.deb: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

I looked at all the google errors didn’t help at all. Then looked closely at how dpkg worked.

I found out that the deb files are in archive format (ar).

So I unpacked the deb file with:

ar x python-gst0.10_0.10.14-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

and got the following files:
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3579 2009-10-27 12:25 control.tar.gz
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 501047 2009-10-27 12:25 data.tar.gz
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 4 2009-10-27 12:25 debian-binary

I tarred xzvf the files and got lots of files but especially
the file called “prerm” ie. pre-removal script.

So it appears this script crapped out but why.

Inside it looks at the current python version.

I had previously mistakenly thought I can set the version of python I can use by using ubuntu’s update-alternatives command:

update-alternatives (8) – maintain symbolic links determining default commands

Bad news it broke some assumptions in this prerm script file! I removed the symbolic link from the update-alernative command and just relinked python to python2.5 binary and the dpkg appears now to work. Phew looks like every problem in the deb infrastructure is probably caused by non-robust code in script files and/or in my case there are too many ways to change the system without understanding some of the consequences.