20220829 kinetic daily image crash with nvidia

[Brian Murray]

I received an error message when installing packages regarding dpkg returning an error code which I believe was in regards to installing nvidia drivers. I'll attach a screenshot of the message which I saw.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: ubiquity 22.10.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.23.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.473
Date: Tue Aug 30 15:09:40 2022
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Alpha amd64 (20220829)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2022-08-30T15:09:37.524583

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The following appears in the syslog file:

7796 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: nvidia.ko: FAILED#015
7797 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: sha256sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match#015
7798 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing package linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.15.0-27-generic (--configure):#015
7799 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: installed linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.15.0-27-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1#015
7800 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
7801 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-22.04:#015
7802 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-22.04 depends on linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.15.0-27-generic (= 5.15.0-27.28); however:#015
7803 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: Package linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.15.0-27-generic is not configured yet.#015
7804 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: #015
7805 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing package linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-22.04 (--configure):#015
7806 Aug 30 21:38:42 ubuntu ubiquity: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured#015

However earlier we see that that the ISO itself is fine:

6456 Aug 30 21:31:31 ubuntu casper-md5check[1412]: Check finished: no errors found.
6457 Aug 30 21:31:31 ubuntu systemd[1]: Finished casper-md5check Verify Live ISO checksums.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is the actual grub-installer error:

Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[37907]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation.
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity: Parent PID 38620: /bin/sh
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity:
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity: Volume group "vda" not found
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity:
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity:
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity: Cannot process volume group vda
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu ubiquity:
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/vda2: gpt
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/vda'
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/vda"
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
Aug 30 22:03:24 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/vda"' failed.
Aug 30 22:03:29 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /target/cdrom: not mounted.
Aug 30 22:03:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/cdrom