Ubuntu
grub-installer package

fails to install grub on new SSD

Bug #1793822 reported by Chris Dart on 2018-09-21

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

I was attempting to install Ubuntu on a ThinkCentre M-series box with a clean SSD. Twice in a row I got the message: "the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Fri Sep 21 15:15:14 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Chris Dart (chrisdart) wrote on 2018-09-21:

Casper.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (985 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (130 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (253.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (4.6 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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