[Bug 1779928] [NEW] unable to install Ubuntu to laptop HDD from thumbdrive.

[Matthew Najmon]

Public bug reported:

Attempting to install Ubuntu from a thumbdrive to the HDD on an HP
Pavilion laptop. After some finagling, managed to get laptop to boot
from thumbdrive. Went through the usual dialog to select installation
options, then told it to start the installation. It went to the progress
bar for the installation, but didn't get very far in before popping up
an error message stating that it had failed to install "grub-EFI-
amd64-signed" to /target/ . Closing that dialog window closed out the
installation attempt, with the HDD in question left unbootable, and
opened the window to start the process to make a bug report. I was
unable to determine the exact Ubuntu release I'm using, but the
thumbdrive was created from an image downloaded from Ubuntu.com on
2018-07-02, for the default desktop version (not for server or any of
the alternative variants of the distro).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jul  3 13:46:31 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubiquity-18.04.14 ubuntu

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Title:
  unable to install Ubuntu to laptop HDD from thumbdrive.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Attempting to install Ubuntu from a thumbdrive to the HDD on an HP
  Pavilion laptop. After some finagling, managed to get laptop to boot
  from thumbdrive. Went through the usual dialog to select installation
  options, then told it to start the installation. It went to the
  progress bar for the installation, but didn't get very far in before
  popping up an error message stating that it had failed to install
  "grub-EFI-amd64-signed" to /target/ . Closing that dialog window
  closed out the installation attempt, with the HDD in question left
  unbootable, and opened the window to start the process to make a bug
  report. I was unable to determine the exact Ubuntu release I'm using,
  but the thumbdrive was created from an image downloaded from
  Ubuntu.com on 2018-07-02, for the default desktop version (not for
  server or any of the alternative variants of the distro).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Jul  3 13:46:31 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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