[Bug 1653982] Re: grub-install post installation script fails

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Thu Feb 9 14:58:31 UTC 2017


That is very strange.  Simply reinstalling grub without making any other
changes should not have had any different outcome.  An EFI system must
have an EFI system partition mounted in /boot/efi.  The original error
message is complaining that it can not find that.

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Title:
  grub-install post installation script fails

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The grub-install apt upgrade does not complete successfully on my
  system.

  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.10
  Release:	16.10
  Codename:	yakkety

  Kernel: 4.8.0-32-generic
  arch: X86_64

  Here is the error from the apt-get upgrade

  Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
  grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
  dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.74+2.02~beta2-36ubuntu11) ...
  grub-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.
  dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   shim-signed
   grub-efi-amd64-signed

  I checked into this problem and since my system is not an i386
  architecture there is no i386 directory in /usr/lib/grub directory. Is
  it possible that the post install script does not use the architecture
  properly? I would not expect the post install to call anything from
  the i386 directory on an X86_64 system.

  $ apt-cache policy grub-install
  N: Unable to locate package grub-install
  $ apt-cache policy grub
  grub:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 0.97-29ubuntu69
    Version table:
       0.97-29ubuntu69 500
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages

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