Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

From	Markus <debianer@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed
Date	2021-07-08 10:30 +0200
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Am 07.07.21 um 12:27 schrieb Markus:
> Am 07.07.21 um 09:24 schrieb Andrei POPESCU:
>> On Mi, 07 iul 21, 08:21:17, Markus wrote:
>>> Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote:
>>>>> grub-efi-amd64:
>>>>>     Installed: (none)
>>>>>     Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3
>>>>>     Version table:
>>>>>        2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500
>>>>>           500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64
>>>>> Packages
>>>>>           500 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main amd64
>>>>> Packages
>>>>>        2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 30000
>>>>>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>>>
>>>> Everything else looks good, except for this "30000" section.  You've
>>>> got
>>>> a pin somewhere, for an older version of grub-efi-amd64, and it's
>>>> throwing everything out of whack.
>>>>
>>> Could you please help me fixing this? What are the next steps to go? How
>>> can I unpin this or find out why it was pinned?
>>
>> Please show the output of `apt policy` (without any package) as well as
>> the contents of /etc/apt/preferences and any file under
>> /etc/apt/preferences.d/
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Andrei
>>
>
> apt policy:
>
> Package files:
>   100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>       release a=now
>   100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports/non-free i386
> Packages
>       release o=Debian
> Backports,a=buster-backports,n=buster-backports,l=Debian
> Backports,c=non-free,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports/non-free amd64
> Packages
>       release o=Debian
> Backports,a=buster-backports,n=buster-backports,l=Debian
> Backports,c=non-free,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports/contrib i386
> Packages
>       release o=Debian
> Backports,a=buster-backports,n=buster-backports,l=Debian
> Backports,c=contrib,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports/contrib amd64
> Packages
>       release o=Debian
> Backports,a=buster-backports,n=buster-backports,l=Debian
> Backports,c=contrib,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main i386 Packages
>       release o=Debian
> Backports,a=buster-backports,n=buster-backports,l=Debian
> Backports,c=main,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main amd64 Packages
>       release o=Debian
> Backports,a=buster-backports,n=buster-backports,l=Debian
> Backports,c=main,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-updates/main i386 Packages
>       release
> o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=buster-updates,l=Debian,c=main,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-updates/main amd64 Packages
>       release
> o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=buster-updates,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/non-free i386 Packages
>       release
> v=10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free,b=i386
>       origin security.debian.org
>   500 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
>       release
> v=10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free,b=amd64
>       origin security.debian.org
>   500 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main i386 Packages
>       release
> v=10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=i386
>       origin security.debian.org
>   500 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main amd64 Packages
>       release
> v=10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=amd64
>       origin security.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/non-free i386 Packages
>       release v=10.10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/non-free amd64 Packages
>       release
> v=10.10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/contrib i386 Packages
>       release v=10.10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Packages
>       release v=10.10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 Packages
>       release v=10.10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=main,b=i386
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
>   500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
>       release v=10.10,o=Debian,a=stable,n=buster,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
>       origin ftp.de.debian.org
> Pinned packages:
>       grub-efi-amd64 -> 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 with priority 3000
0
>
>
>
>
> markus@bmtMB1:/etc/apt$ cat preferences
> cat: preferences: No such file or directory
>
>
>
> markus@bmtMB1:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ ls
> apt-listbugs
> markus@bmtMB1:/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cat apt-listbugs
>
> Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2021-03-06 12:05:35 +0100
> Explanation:   #984520: 'error: symbol "grub_register_command_lockdown"
> not found' and then lightdm fails to start
> Package: grub-efi-amd64
> Pin: version 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3
> Pin-Priority: 30000
>
> Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2021-06-20 11:19:38 +0200
> Explanation:   #990082: High chance of boot problems with buster's
> version of arm64 shim
> Package: shim-signed
> Pin: version 1.33+15+1533136590.3beb971-7
> Pin-Priority: 30000
> markus@bmtMB1:/etc/apt/preferences.d$
>
>
> So it seems that apt-listbugs has done the pinning. Right?
>

Hi guys, it is nice that from all of this a little discussion took of.
But what can I actually do to fix my problem here? Any suggestions?

Thanks and cheers
Markus

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    Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 18:10 +0200
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                Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed Markus <debianer@gmx.de> - 2021-07-07 12:30 +0200
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