grub2 missing from manifest on 17.04 so fails to boot

[Lyn Perrine]

To reproduce Downlaod the latest version of lubuntu daily for 17.04 64 bit and it then tries to install grub but does not have the package installed. I was offline at the time but a bootloader is mandatory for almost all users. I was installing on an xfs / filesystem but doubt that matters and chose something else to get this option with manual partitioning.

Description: Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch)
Release: 17.04

I expected the installer to isntall grub instead I may have to manually install grub .

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: lubuntu-desktop 0.73
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.379
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Dec 12 20:25:05 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20161212)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1649462

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

I think the removal of the grub binary messed up the seeds. I replaced it with grub2 to see if it's better, but I'm not sure it will be enough.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

I pushed a potential fix to the seed. I hope it will be enough.

Apparently, grub is put on flavors ISO just by the recommend of Ubiquity.
See : http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/xubuntu.zesty/live
And : http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.zesty/live

Since lubuntu uses no-follow-recommends, we miss this one, so I put it explicitly on the seed.

[Lyn Perrine (walterorlin)]

Yes I have sucessfully used the iso to install a vm so think this may be fixed.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Brendan, thanks for verifying the fix!

I did see that grub2-common is now in the manifest again:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily-live/current/zesty-desktop-amd64.manifest