Comment 6 for bug 1872100

Hi Julian,

The software update window showed me a link terminal interface to select a
partition and this time it worked. This happened yesterday.

Do you need me to describe that in the bug or do you have enough?

Best,

Eduardo

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 11:05 Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>
wrote:

> It's unclear to me what is happening here. I don't see any error message
> except for the ones about /dev, which are harmless, so this should be
> working after you selected the partition.
>
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> Title:
> "The GRUB bootloader was previously installed to a disk that is no
> longer present..."
>
> Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I'm on the 20.04 early testing group.
> I've been using 20.04 for about a month.
> Today when doing a normal software update
> 1 - the update-manager got stuck in an error message (see attached) and
> then
> 2 - prompted me saying that "The GRUB bootloader was previously
> installed to a disk that is no longer present..." (see attached)
> 3 - and when I selected that path because it's the only EFI partition I
> have and press 'Next'
> 4 - then a new dialog appears asking if I want to proceed without
> installing GRUB.
> 5 - when I untick that box and try to proceed trying to install GRUB it
> then takes me back to step (2) so I'm currently stuck in a loop.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
> Package: update-manager 1:20.04.5
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-23.27-generic 5.4.29
> Uname: Linux 5.4.0-23-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Fri Apr 10 16:10:48 2020
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-04 (218 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: update-manager
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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