Kernel Upgrade forces removal of grub-efi due to missing recommends entry

keith@Jarvis:~$ dpkg -l linux-image-generic
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================================================-=====================================================-==========================================================================================================================
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.38.8.22 Generic Linux kernel image
keith@Jarvis:~$ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================================================-=====================================================-==========================================================================================================================
ii linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic 2.6.38-8.42 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86/x86_64
keith@Jarvis:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.38-10-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc
Suggested packages:
  desktop-base fdutils linux-doc-2.6.38 linux-source-2.6.38 linux-tools
The following packages will be REMOVED
  grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
The following NEW packages will be installed
  grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc linux-image-2.6.38-10-generic
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 148 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

SRU Justification

Description: EFI bootloaders are not in the recommends list

Impact: Due to a bug in apt, bootloader packages not in the recommends list are removed when linux-image is upgraded or installed.

Patch: add appropriate EFI bootloaders to the recommends clause.

Michael - cjwatson suggested this is likely an apt bug. As its unlikely to get fixed in Natty, perhaps you could look at fixing Oneiric (if it is indeed an apt bug).

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.0-2.3

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linux (3.0-2.3) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * ubuntu: AUFS -- update to 0e2bafab74f0d1463383faeb93f9fc5eb8c2c54e

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]

  * rebase to v3.0-rc4
  * [Config] updateconfigs after rebase to 3.0-rc4
  * fix ERROR: __devcgroup_inode_permission undefined

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * SAUCE: iscsitarget: Remove driver from the kernel

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * SAUCE: rtl8192se: Force a build for a 2.6/3.0 kernel
  * [Config] Add grub-efi as a recommended bootloader for server and
    generic
    - LP: #800910

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]

  * rebase to v3.0-rc4
 -- Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:51:12 -0700

I reinstalled grub-efi on my desktop to fix it.
I had to use the LiveCD. It wasn't fun.

Is there a documented work around?

Thanks.
Didier

Any reason why this isn't getting fixed in Natty? I just managed to upgrade my machine into a paperweight, and would really like it to eventually boot at some point.

Work-arounds, recommendations very much appreciated.

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-natty' to 'verification-done-natty'.

If verification is not done by one week from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

I just upgraded to the latest Natty Proposed kernel and everything went smooth. Grub-efi wasn't supposed to be removed this time.

Verified from my side.

Thx

I have an Asus e35m1-i deluxe and I cannot upgrade GRUB without seeing this happen in the update manager.

For reference, when updating GRUB, I am asked where I want to install the update, to which I am offered to install it to /dev/sda which is my Samsung hard disk or to it's primary partition.

I have tried both of them separately and then both together and still can't get it to work.

Every time I get the error:

"error: invalid arch independent ELF magic"

Thanks

Steve

Grub-uefi is still removed by default when updating 11.04. I don't see how this issue has been solved if a fresh installation is broken immediately after update...