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grub-installer package

grub2 could not be installed

Bug #1767664 reported by Peter Hehl on 2018-04-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1767703: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

while installing ubuntu the installation of grub2 was not possible on the target

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
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 17:11:40 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Peter Hehl (tsotsi) wrote on 2018-04-28:

Casper.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (7.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDm.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (796.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (244.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2018-04-28:

Apr 28 15:11:00 ubuntu-mate grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate ubiquity[1878]: Reverting lockdown of the desktop environment.
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate activate-dmraid: No Serial ATA RAID disks detected
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/cdrom
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate finish-install: Disabling CDROM entries in sources.list
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr 28 15:11:29 ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1739, in <module>
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: install.run()
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 61, in wrapper
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: func(self)
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 227, in run
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 971, in configure_bootloader
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
ubuntu-mate /plugininstall.py:
ubuntu-mate partman: No matching physical volumes found
ubuntu-mate partman: Reading volume groups from cache.

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ubuntu-mate ntfsresize: Collecting resizing constraints ...
ubuntu-mate ntfsresize: You might resize at 157045387264 bytes or 157046 MB (freeing 13233 MB).
ubuntu-mate ntfsresize: Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
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