#1149727 grub-pc: broken symlink /usr/bin/grub-ntldr-img

Package:
grub-pc
Source:
grub-pc
Description:
GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
Submitter:
Michael Prokop
Date:
2026-10-02 18:17:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1149727#5
Date:
2026-10-02 18:16:26 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

grub-pc ships broken symlink /usr/bin/grub-ntldr-img:

| root@3d98dafab964:/# ls -la /usr/bin/grub-ntldr-img
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Sep 23 20:39 /usr/bin/grub-ntldr-img -> ../lib/grub/i386-pc/grub-ntldr-img
| root@3d98dafab964:/# realpath /usr/bin/grub-ntldr-img
| /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/grub-ntldr-img
| root@3d98dafab964:/# ls -lah /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/grub-ntldr-img
| ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/grub-ntldr-img': No such file or directory

STR:

| podman run --pull=always --rm -i -t debian:sid bash
| apt --update install grub-pc

This might be a leftover from the following change:

| commit 62ae9609a279d0d5f32950e5ba6a895cc68916c8
| Author: Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com>
| Date:   Mon Jan 26 12:02:35 2026 -0600
|
|     Disable grub-extras/ntldr-img

regards
-mika-