[Bug 1682336] Re: reformatted hard drive after bug with xfce desktop, re-install now failing

[Trevor B]

Thanks for the help!

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
> the installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that this
> could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install
> instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode
> install, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system
> partition to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you
> choose the "use entire disk" guided install option.
>
> ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
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> Title:
>   reformatted hard drive after bug with xfce desktop, re-install now
>   failing
>
> Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   I think this is a newbie mistake. I already have a desktop interface.
>   I was following a digital ocean tutorial for setting up VNC. Part of
>   it was installing xfce desktop. My system started being buggy (in
>   steam Warhammer wouldn't display models, on reboot I would type in my
>   password and the screen would go black, and then it would prompt me
>   for my password again). I decided to do a complete system re-install.
>   I got a message that the install is now failing because of not being
>   able to access a drive or something.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_
> partition/question]
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
>   Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperVersion: 1.376.2
>   Date: Wed Apr 12 22:53:24 2017
>   InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
> file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
>   LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20170215.2)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SourcePackage: grub-installer
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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Title:
  reformatted hard drive after bug with xfce desktop, re-install now
  failing

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I think this is a newbie mistake. I already have a desktop interface.
  I was following a digital ocean tutorial for setting up VNC. Part of
  it was installing xfce desktop. My system started being buggy (in
  steam Warhammer wouldn't display models, on reboot I would type in my
  password and the screen would go black, and then it would prompt me
  for my password again). I decided to do a complete system re-install.
  I got a message that the install is now failing because of not being
  able to access a drive or something.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  Date: Wed Apr 12 22:53:24 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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