Comment 6 for bug 1767523

Yes, somebody must do something. It is a horrible mess that made my waste 3
or 4 days to find a way.

Carlos Sevcik,
MD PhD Professor
CEO, Scientific & Medical Data Analysis (SciMeDAn).
Barcelona, Spain
Web: www.scimedan.com
<email address hidden>
Phone: +34 930 15 16 34
Mobile: +34 697 66 84 02

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:10 AM, dino99 <email address hidden> wrote:

> What a user's case; thanks for all these explanation/steps.
>
> There are so many reports about Efi-Gpt-Mvme with actual hardware configs;
> what a mess.
> see lp:1767703
>
> Maybe its time to redesign that installer, with a more detailed
> partition option explanations.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767523
>
> Title:
> Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't
> install from 18.04 pendrive
>
> Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> 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
> 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
> CasperVersion: 1.394
> Date: Sat Apr 28 00:42:29 2018
> InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20180426)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: grub-installer
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/
> +bug/1767523/+subscriptions
>