grub-installer crashes when installing alongside Windows
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Windows 10 wouldn't let me shrink its partition far enough, so I had to reinstall it from scratch. I reformatted another partition on the SSD to ext4, then ran the 18.04.1 installer and it crashed when trying to install the boot loader.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 5 00:33:59 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Bug #1790803 is a duplicate that contains another set of logs from when I reproduced the problem.