Comment 10 for bug 554307

BTW, all my linux systems are 1-partition-each, no seperate ~s, or swaps or boot. Keeping it simple. They are on 2 drives, one external, one internal. Grub is on /dev/sda with config files on sda5, which is the one that boots. Some are on primary and some on logical partitions. Sda1 and sda2 are Win-7. I have maybe 7 'nix systems, most but not all of which are 14.04s. And this happened after I defragged the W7 and shrunk its main partition (sda2)(what a collasol PITA - MS makes that hard deliberately, the farstards), put in a new sda6, restored an fsarchiver backup of sda5 to it, reset it to a new UUID, and did update-grub. When it didn't work, I used all the native tools to purge grub* and reinstall. dpkg kept returning errors which I couldn't fix with any dpkg or apt-get commands, despite hours of trying. To my surprise Synaptic had no trouble fixing that. But no matter how many times I purge and reinstall, it is the same issue now.

One more work-around I just thought of, in light of some of the comments above, that may be worth trying:

-After purging grub* and manually rm'ing any grub related files I can find on the system that installed grub to sda, which I already tried, go on and rm any grub related files I can fine on ALL partitions before reinstalling. Maybe?