Unable to install noble-daily (20240315) because it can't find grub-pc / grub-efi*

[Leonardo Müller]

When testing the "Install (no Network) in Xubuntu Desktop amd64 in Noble Daily" on a QEMU virtual machine started with the command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -net none -hda xub2404Daily.img -cdrom noble-desktop-amd64.iso -cpu host -smp cores=4,threads=2 -m 4G -device qxl-vga,xres=1280,yres=720 -boot menu=on

The install failed. I have attached the entire /var/log from the live system with the data. The most relevant log seems to be on the installer directory:

        Running command ['unshare', '--fork', '--pid', '--', 'chroot', '/target', 'apt-get', '--quiet', '--assume-yes', '--option=Dpkg::options::=--force-unsafe-io', '--option=Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold', 'install', '--download-only', 'grub-pc'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Reading package lists...
        Building dependency tree...
        Reading state information...
        Package grub-pc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
        This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
        is only available from another source
        However the following packages replace it:
          grub-common

        E: Package 'grub-pc' has no installation candidate
        Running command ['udevadm', 'settle'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        TIMED subp(['udevadm', 'settle']): 0.020
        Running command ['mount', '--make-private', '/target/sys'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['umount', '/target/sys'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['mount', '--make-private', '/target/run'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['umount', '/target/run'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['mount', '--make-private', '/target/proc'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['umount', '/target/proc'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['mount', '--make-private', '/target/dev'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        Running command ['umount', '/target/dev'] with allowed return codes [0] (capture=False)
        finish: cmd-install/stage-curthooks/builtin/cmd-curthooks: FAIL: Installing packages on target system: ['grub-pc']

[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/2057989

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

Thanks for the report.

Certain packages like grub-pc should be on the ISO pool, and the ship-live seed should be handling this.

https://github.com/Xubuntu/xubuntu-seed/blob/noble/ship-live looks like it doesn't include ship-live while the "upstream" ship-live does include it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

An EFI version of this bug also was filed. Please include the grub/shim/efi packages listed in ship-live:

 * grub-efi-amd64 [amd64]
 * grub-efi-amd64-signed [amd64]
 * grub-efi-arm64 [arm64]
 * grub-efi-amd64-signed [arm64]
 * grub-pc
 * shim-signed
 * efibootmgr

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

This should be fixed on the next ISO builds.