Comment 6 for bug 1582320

From taking a look at the motherboard manual, this is an EFI system (UEFI
BIOS). The system was built by a local independent integrator. The
motherboard is ASUS Q87M-E.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I'm not convinced that this isn't an EFI system.
>
> The CD used here looks like it was booted in EFI mode:
> [ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
> file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
>
> And that there was some EFI data available to the system as ESRT:
> [ 0.000000] efi: EFI v2.31 by American Megatrends
> [ 0.000000] efi: ESRT=0xbbf56898 ACPI=0xba7df000 ACPI
> 2.0=0xba7df000 SMBIOS=0xf04c0 MPS=0xfd4d0
> [ 0.000000] esrt: Reserving ESRT space from 0x00000000bbf56898 to
> 0x00000000bbf568d0.
>
> So we may be either running into a buggy implementation, or one of those
> 32-bit firmwares for a 64-bit system.
>
> Could you please tell us what the make and model is for the computer on
> which you've received this error message? From this information we may
> be able to track down whether it's a known issue on that hardware.
>
>
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> Problem detected upon boot/login
>
> Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in ubiquity source package in Xenial:
> Incomplete
> Status in ubiquity source package in Yakkety:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> After installing 16.04 (upgrade or re-install), I get this exception
> on login.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: amd64
> BootEFIContents:
> fw
> fwupx64.efi
> Date: Mon May 16 09:28:29 2016
> Df:
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb2 208735776 11061044 187048532 6% /
> /dev/sr0 1451056 1451056 0 100% /cdrom
> udev 7894540 0 7894540 0% /dev
> tmpfs 1581840 9536 1572304 1% /run
> EFIBootMgr: Error: command ['efibootmgr', '-v'] failed with exit code 2:
> efibootmgr: EFI variables are not supported on this system.
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
> error exit status 1
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
> apt 1.2.10ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: shim-signed
> Title: package shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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