grub-install crashes when installing ubuntu on btrfs

[johnny cernato]

When installing on btrfs ubuntu automatically creates subvolumes @ and @home.
When ubiquity comes to installing grub, it failes "failed to install on /dev/sda".
The pop-up query to choose another drive to install, or continue without installing a bootloader, doesn't respond.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 30 14:33:16 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-20-generic root=UUID=b2a9bec2-e290-4313-9a30-c5c2f51f95ce ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

According to your syslog your computer was rebooted before trying to install grub. Can you try again?

[johnny cernato (jcernato)]

Ubiquity crashed trying to install grub, the popup appeared asking me to
choose a different destination or continue installing without a bootloader,
unfortunately the computer was not responsive anymore -> I had to
hard-reset the device and install manually.
Afterwards the system worked - kind of. Whatever ubiquity does after
installing grub (clean up??) was never performed, I had a couple of issues
mainly with python related packages, most of them could be fixed by
reinstalling them with apt. At some point however I got fed up (I tried
installing at least 2 times) and installed Fedora instead...
I'm sorry I can't provide more information but I was pretty pissed at that
time...

cheers

2018-06-06 19:53 GMT+02:00 Phillip Susi <email address hidden>:

> According to your syslog your computer was rebooted before trying to
> install grub. Can you try again?
>
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> grub-install crashes when installing ubuntu on btrfs
>
> Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> When installing on btrfs ubuntu automatically creates subvolumes @ and
> @home.
> When ubiquity comes to installing grub, it failes "failed to install on
> /dev/sda".
> The pop-up query to choose another drive to install, or continue without
> installing a bootloader, doesn't respond.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
> Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Mon Apr 30 14:33:16 2018
> InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-20-generic
> root=UUID=b2a9bec2-e290-4313-9a30-c5c2f51f95ce ro rootflags=subvol=@
> quiet splash vt.handoff=1
> SourcePackage: ubiquity
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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