fresh installation of ubuntu 20.10 failed on grub-install

Bug #1908389 reported by Thibault D
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Fresh installation of Ubuntu 20.10 ended with the following message:
- in French: L'exécution de "grub-install /dev/sda" a échoué. Cette erreur est fatale.
- in English, probably: Executing "grub-install /dev/sda/" failed. Fatal error.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubiquity 20.10.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.455
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Dec 16 11:11:18 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 linux-image-5.8.0-33-generic
 linux-base
 linux-image-5.8.0-25-generic
 linux-base
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Thibault D (thibdrev) wrote :
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Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala) wrote :

grub-install : erreur : impossible de copier « /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi-signed/grubx64.efi.signed » vers « /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi » : Aucun espace disponible sur le périphérique.

This translates into No space available on the device.

Looks like it is trying to install grub into wrong device.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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