Problem with apt-get upgrade on 3.0 beta

Hi, I've been waiting for a way to get linux-kbuild for a while. Without the nvidia proprietary drivers, my machine freezes with a blank screen. I've always had problems with the free drivers, but they seem worse now. So I was excited to see the relevant thread but I haven't had time until now to try it out.

Tonight I booted into rescue mode of my 3.0 beta install and got a wired ethernet connection. First thing I did was add the suggested source.list line, apt-get update and then, perhaps foolishly, apt-get upgrade. I get the following

Setting up linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64 (2.6.29-2) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64.postinst line 569.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64.postinst line 569.
Running 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-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 20
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So some kind of problem with update-grub? I ran it manually:

root@64studio:/var/cache/apt/archives# 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-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Replacing config file /var/run/grub/menu.lst with new version
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

but linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64 remains unconfigured:

 root@64studio:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.29\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version                       Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
iF  linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimed 2.6.29-2                      Linux 2.6.29 image on AMD64

Try configuring again I still get the "[update-grub] exited with value 20" error.

So I stuck -x on the #! line in /usr/sbin/update-grub and ran dpkg --configure again. I won't put the whole ouput here unless someone asks, but here's the last few lines showing the "return 20":

+ sed -n '-e/## ## End Default Options ##/,/### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST/p'
+ db_x_loadtemplatefile /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub.templates grub
+ _db_cmd 'X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub.templates' grub
+ IFS=' '
+ printf '%s\n' 'X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub.templates grub'
+ IFS='
'
+ read -r _db_internal_line
+ RET='20 Unsupported command "update-initramfs:" (full line was "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64") received from confmodule.'
+ case ${_db_internal_line%%[ 	]*} in
+ return 20

Any ideas? I'd rather not reinstall if I can fix this.

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Michael Pacey