Since I'm on virtualbox I restored a pre-upgrade snapshot and tried again. This worked for me:
1. Upgrade all packages that do not depend on grub-pc (or rather those that Synaptic would let me upgrade without upgrading grub-pc). 2. Upgrade only grub-pc and grub-common. This time a window popped up during the "Setting up grub-pc (1.98-1ubuntu4) ..." phase asking what to do with my existing (non-standard) /etc/default/grub. I chose to keep it and the installation completed successfully. I presume that this window should have popped up during my previous attempts to, but for some reason it didn't and the installer appeared to hang while it was waiting for inputs from the window. -- Setting up grub-pc (1.98-1ubuntu4) ... hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560485 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
