Since this is my home app server and testbed machine, I started uncomplicating my setup to see if that would help...
root@kami:~# lvremove /dev/KamiVG01/chippoke
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume chippoke? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "chippoke" successfully removed
root@kami:~# lvremove /dev/KamiVG01/nas-office
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume nas-office? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "nas-office" successfully removed
root@kami:~# lvscan
root@kami:~# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "KamiVG01" using metadata type lvm2
root@kami:~# vgremove KamiVG01
Volume group "KamiVG01" successfully removed
root@kami:~# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
No volume groups found
dpkg --configure -a still froze at Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin.
Also attached current menu.lst.
Interestingly, running update-grub manually seems to work fine (but walks over the kernels twice?):
root@kami:/boot/grub# /usr/sbin/update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-12-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-17-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-12-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-17-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Since this is my home app server and testbed machine, I started uncomplicating my setup to see if that would help...
root@kami:~# lvremove /dev/KamiVG01/ chippoke nas-office
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume chippoke? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "chippoke" successfully removed
root@kami:~# lvremove /dev/KamiVG01/
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume nas-office? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "nas-office" successfully removed
root@kami:~# lvscan
root@kami:~# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "KamiVG01" using metadata type lvm2
root@kami:~# vgremove KamiVG01
Volume group "KamiVG01" successfully removed
root@kami:~# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
No volume groups found
dpkg --configure -a still froze at Found kernel: /boot/memtest86 +.bin.
Also attached current menu.lst.
Interestingly, running update-grub manually seems to work fine (but walks over the kernels twice?):
root@kami: /boot/grub# /usr/sbin/ update- grub 3.13.0- 12-generic 3.11.0- 17-generic 3.11.0- 15-generic +.bin 3.13.0- 12-generic 3.11.0- 17-generic 3.11.0- 15-generic +.bin
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
root@kami: /boot/grub#