do-release-upgrade leaves the system in a unbootable state
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I upgraded my Xubuntu Artful install to Bionic using the following command:
do-release-upgrade -d
And the entire process went smoothly, when it was asked to reboot the system I chose yes. After that, Xubuntu failed to boot with the following message:
Error 0x1A (Security Violation)
Then I rebooted and pressed F12 to see the available boot options and there were two equal entries from the disk where Xubuntu Artful was installed.
Then I chose another install from another disk, and from that system I repaired the bootloader using the following command:
LANGUAGE=C sudo grub-install --efi-directory
Its output was:
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
GUID Partition Table Header signature is wrong: be5608740128e852 != 5452415020494645
GUID Partition Table Header signature is wrong: 0 != 5452415020494645
GUID Partition Table Header signature is wrong: be5608740128e852 != 5452415020494645
GUID Partition Table Header signature is wrong: 0 != 5452415020494645
GUID Partition Table Header signature is wrong: be5608740128e852 != 5452415020494645
GUID Partition Table Header signature is wrong: 0 != 5452415020494645
Installation finished. No error reported.
And then the upgraded Xubuntu was able to boot again.
The HDD on which the system is installed has a MBR partition table, is bootable in UEFI and there is no Windows on this disk. I believe this combination was not well handled in the upgrade and ended leaving it in a unbootable state.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Apr 27 16:59:27 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-24 (277 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-27 (0 days ago)
tags: | added: artful2bionic |
tags: | added: rls-bb-incoming |
tags: | added: third-party-packages |
tags: | removed: rls-bb-incoming |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.