Re: Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-6.12.17-powerpc64

Thank you sir, this solved my problem.

Cedar Maxwell

On Mon, 2025-07-07 at 19:42 +0100, James Madgwick wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:05:48 +0200
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 15:06 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> > > Continue? [Y/n] y
> > > (Reading database ... 494570 files and directories currently
> > > installed.)
> > > Removing linux-image-6.12.17-powerpc64 (6.12.17-1) ...
> > > /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools:
> > > update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-6.12.17-powerpc64
> > > /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub:
> > > /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 274: cannot create
> > > /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new:
> > > Read-only file system
> > 
> > Your HFS boot filesystem has errors and was mounted read-only.
> > 
> > You need to install hfsprogs, umount /boot/grub and then run
> > "fsck.hfs /dev/sda2" where (sda2) is the partition of your HFS
> > filesystem. (All from memory, please verify the actual paths are
> > correct).
> > 
> > There are some bugs in the HFS/HFS+ driver in the Linux kernel
> > which
> > may have caused this. These bugs are now being worked on by new
> > maintainers [1].
> > 
> > Adrian
> > 
> > > [1] https://github.com/hfs-linux-kernel/hfs-linux-kernel/issues
> 
> I experienced this exact problem yesterday when updating my system.
> Adrian's instructions match with the commands I ran (as root) to get
> it
> fixed:
> 
> umount /boot/grub
> apt install hfsprogs
> sudo fsck.hfs /dev/sda2
> mount /dev/sda2 /boot/grub -o rw
> apt upgrade
> 
> I used `dmesg | tail` to find why remounting with rw didn't work
> initially.
> 
> James