error message executing grub-install /dev/sda failed

[rashid shisia]

tam trying to install ubuntu using usb but am getting the above errror

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubiquity 22.04.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-43.46-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.470
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 4 10:43:41 2022
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

Oct 4 07:30:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity mount --bind /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Oct 4 07:30:40 ubuntu grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Oct 4 07:30:40 ubuntu ubiquity: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[63355]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 29905: /bin/sh
Oct 4 07:30:40 ubuntu ubiquity: Volume group "sda" not found
Oct 4 07:30:40 ubuntu ubiquity: Cannot process volume group sda
Oct 4 07:30:40 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda1: gpt
Oct 4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Oct 4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Oct 4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"
Oct 4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Oct 4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: Cannot set EFI variable Boot0005.
Oct 4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 8 failed: Invalid argument.
Oct 4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: _efi_set_variable_mode: ops->set_variable() failed: Invalid argument.
Oct 4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Invalid argument.
Oct 4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"' failed.

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

Likely duplicate of LP: #1874342

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.