Installer crashes on attempting to install grub2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Installing Ubuntu 18.04 on my Dell XPS 15 9550 alongside Windows 10 fails when attempting to run grub-install. A picture of the error message is provided.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: usr/lib/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Tue May 15 01:00:44 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Error is:
cp: cannot create regular file '/boot/ efi/EFI/ ubuntu/ fwupx64. efi'
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Check if you are really superuser with: whoami
if the output is root, then you are superuser and you can make the copy of the file