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how is going everyone...very first time in this forum....been using linux lite since 2.6 version came out...converted from windows ..just noticed that i have been getting  an update failure of a 64 bit Lite 4.6 machine for about a 2 months now.....don't know what was changed...thought it would fix itself with later updates but has not...if i run the updates again the system will say it is up to date.. Can anyone suggest a remedy? Here is the update failure log:

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Install Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  vivaldi-stable
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 64.7 MB/85.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 64.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable/main amd64 vivaldi-stable amd64 2.10.1745.23-1 [64.7 MB]
Fetched 64.7 MB in 11s (5,978 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic.
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Preparing to unpack .../linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic_4.15.0-65.74_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic (4.15.0-65.74) ...
Preparing to unpack .../vivaldi-stable_2.10.1745.23-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking vivaldi-stable (2.10.1745.23-1) over (2.10.1745.21-1) ...
Setting up grub-pc (2.02-2ubuntu8.14) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.config: 44: /etc/default/grub: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure):
installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Setting up linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic (4.15.0-72.81) ...
Setting up linux-image-4.15.0-70-generic (4.15.0-70.79) ...
Setting up linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic (4.15.0-65.74) ...
Setting up vivaldi-stable (2.10.1745.23-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu2.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic (4.15.0-72.81) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 4.15.0-72-generic
  ...done.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-72-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/zram1
I: (UUID=86b99ece-f07b-451e-9533-d707a96148e0)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/vboxadd:
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 44: /etc/default/grub: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 2
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic (--configure):
installed linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for linux-image-4.15.0-70-generic (4.15.0-70.79) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 4.15.0-70-generic
  ...done.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-70-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/zram1
I: (UUID=86b99ece-f07b-451e-9533-d707a96148e0)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/vboxadd:
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 44: /etc/default/grub: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 2
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.15.0-70-generic (--configure):
installed linux-image-4.15.0-70-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-pc
linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic
linux-image-4.15.0-70-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)