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  1. Bug #1707832
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1707832

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1707832] Re: package shim-signed 1.32~16.04.1+0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 10:17:09PM -0000, cristina wrote:
> When I try those commands I get error messages (see below).

It looks like despite these errors, you should have generated some files
called '/tmp/grub-install-trace.*' - please attach them.

> I just remembered something that might be related to this bug. A few
> months ago I followed a guide to fix a boot error (the computer would
> not boot into ubuntu without live DVD). I was able to fix the boot
> problem, but maybe its solution is causing this bug? Here is the guide
> I followed: http://heeris.id.au/2014/ubuntu-plus-mac-pure-efi-boot/#fixing-efi

It's quite possible. I don't think that having an hfs+ filesystem as your
EFI System Partition is compliant with the UEFI spec, and I don't know how
grub is interacting with this; but the strace output should tell us where to
look.