[Bug 1767523] Re: Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't install from 18.04 pendrive

[Carlos Sevcik]

Yes, somebody must do something. It is a horrible mess that made my waste 3
or 4 days to find a way.

Carlos Sevcik,
MD PhD Professor
CEO, Scientific & Medical Data Analysis (SciMeDAn).
Barcelona, Spain
Web: www.scimedan.com
carlos.sevcik.s at gmail.com
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On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:10 AM, dino99 <1767523 at bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:

> What a user's case; thanks for all these explanation/steps.
>
> There are so many reports about Efi-Gpt-Mvme with actual hardware configs;
> what a mess.
> see lp:1767703
>
> Maybe its time to redesign that installer, with a more detailed
> partition option explanations.
>
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> Title:
>   Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't
>   install from 18.04 pendrive
>
> Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   LENOVO with uefi installation fails due to inability to write boot
>   loader. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 worked OK  but update to 18.04 failed due to
>   Xwinows configurtion. It was possible to login using Control-Alt-F1
>   but xinit or startx gave errors and failed.
>
>   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
>   Date: Sat Apr 28 00:42:29 2018
>   InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
>   LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 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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Title:
  Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't
  install from 18.04 pendrive

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  LENOVO with uefi installation fails due to inability to write boot
  loader. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 worked OK  but update to 18.04 failed due to
  Xwinows configurtion. It was possible to login using Control-Alt-F1
  but xinit or startx gave errors and failed.

  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
  Date: Sat Apr 28 00:42:29 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 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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