ubiquity failed to install grub in Lubuntu Yakkety i386 daily

[sudodus]

I think this is a false alarm.

I noticed that the bios_grub flag was missing after installing with yesterday's iso file, so I restored it (with gparted). I don't know if it was a temporary glitch or a failing drive, or if it was a bug in yesterday's iso file, that removed the bios_grub flag and made the drive unavailable for today's iso file. Anyway, today's iso file *can* install grub into the same drive, and it does not remove the bios_grub flag.

-o-

During iso-testing, from the previous daily live iso file to this one, grub failed to be installed. I tried manual partitioning alias 'Something else' and tried to install to the same partition in the same target drive as yesterday.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: ubiquity 16.10.11 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.378
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun Sep 18 09:07:22 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- debian-installer/language=sv keyboard-configuration/layoutcode?=se
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha i386 (20160917)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1624807

[sudodus (nio-wiklund)]

I think this is a false alarm. When I tried again with the previous iso file, that worked yesterday, if failed too. So I used mkusb and wiped the first megabyte and created a fresh gpt system with a bios_grub partition and an EFI partition.

Then I tried again, and it works with yesterday's and today's daily live iso file. But I noticed that the bios_grub flag was missing after installing with yesterday's iso file, so I restored it (with gparted). I don't know if it was a temporary glitch or a failing drive, or if it was a bug in yesterday's iso file, that removed the bios_grub flag and made the drive unavailable for today's iso file.

Anyway, today's iso file *can* install grub into the same drive (a Kingston SSD), and it does not remove the bios_grub flag. I tried twice, and it works.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I'm going to set this to Incomplete which will cause it to auto-expire in 60 days unless someone confirms it or the status is changed away from Incomplete.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for grub-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]