terryc wrote on 7/8/19 4:39 pm:
> In the midst of removing a package that frequently crashes* and
> attempting a general package update/upgrade, somehow the package
> upgrade system has borked something.
>
> Specifically it seems to have come about following a
> sudo apt autoremove where a depreciated image was listed to go.
>
> Now I am at a state where I can do nothing package wise
>
> ..........Error Message........
> Removing linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64 (4.9.88-1+deb9u1) ...
> /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools:
> update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64
> /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub:
> /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 32: /etc/default/grub:
> Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
> run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code
> 2 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64 (--remove):

Maybe there's a spurious back-quote in /etc/default/grub ?

> ...

Ralph.