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grub-installer package

efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error.

Bug #1801797 reported by Ivo Anjo on 2018-11-05

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

I was doing a fresh installation on a machine side-by-side with an existing Ubuntu 14.04 setup (booting via EFI).

During setup, grub failed to install, ubiquity quit, and I was prompted to report this issue.

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: Mon Nov 5 20:54:47 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ivo Anjo (knuckles) wrote on 2018-11-05:

Casper.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (996 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (130 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (269.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (6.7 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2018-12-05

summary:

- Crash during installation
+ efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error.

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