Linux Mint installer crashed when trying to install grub-pc

[Sly Marbo]

The Linux Mint USB installer crashes upon trying to install GRUB. The logs suggest that dpkg is trying to remove grub-pc but that this is failing. I'm not sure why it is trying to remove grub-pc since grub is not installed and there seems to be no reason why grub-pc should be removed.

1) Linux Mint 11 Katya
2) ubiquity 2.6.10-1mint2
    grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3-1mint1
3) Expected the application to install grub 2 (grub-pc)
4) The application crashed and stopped upon trying to install grub-pc

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1551, in <module>
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: install.run()
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: func(self)
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 201, in run
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 844, in configure_bootloader
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Further up in the syslog we see the following:

Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda5: msdos
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-pc:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: startupmanager depends on grub | grub-pc; however:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: Package grub is not installed.
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: Package grub-pc is to be removed.
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--purge):
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dependency problems - not removing
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-gfxpayload-lists:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: grub-pc depends on grub-gfxpayload-lists.
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-gfxpayload-lists (--purge):
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dependency problems - not removing
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: Errors were encountered while processing:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: grub-pc
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: grub-gfxpayload-lists

[Chris Lastnamerson (coldcaption)]

Seems like it's looking for a CD from which to install grub, and I'm using a USB stick. Additionally, I already have grub installed from other endeavors, and it seems unable to detect it. Syslog has this to say:

Oct 12 13:24:53 mint grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Oct 12 13:24:54 mint grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda5: msdos
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-pc:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: startupmanager depends on grub | grub-pc; however:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: Package grub is not installed.
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: Package grub-pc is to be removed.
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--purge):
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dependency problems - not removing
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-gfxpayload-lists:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: grub-pc depends on grub-gfxpayload-lists.
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-gfxpayload-lists (--purge):
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dependency problems - not removing
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: Errors were encountered while processing:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: grub-pc
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: grub-gfxpayload-lists
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint ubiquity: umount: /target/cdrom: not found
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint ubiquity:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/cdrom
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint finish-install: Disabling CD in sources.list
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1551, in <module>
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: install.run()
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: func(self)
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 201, in run
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 844, in configure_bootloader
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:

[dino99 (9d9)]

natty have reached EOL now