Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't install from 18.04 pendrive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
LENOVO with uefi installation fails due to inability to write boot loader. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 worked OK but update to 18.04 failed due to Xwinows configurtion. It was possible to login using Control-Alt-F1 but xinit or startx gave errors and failed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Sat Apr 28 00:42:29 2018
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
The error is : 'ubiquity: grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.'
https:/ /github. com/awesomebyte s/alienware15r3 _ubuntu14/ issues/ 3
So check that pendrive: encryption, luks ?