[Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

[aimwin]

@Graham Mitchell (graham-grahammitchell) 
I view the same as yours.
More though, there is or are the bugs somewhere in the new 18.04 Ubuntu, Kylyn, Lubuntu.
I confirmed the problems.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1028921/the-grub-efi-amd64-signed-
package-failed-to-install-into-target-during-ins/1037036#1037036

My conclusions they are another very bad bugs. 
Since the all old 16.04 works fine for exact same environments.

All 16.04 will detect my notebook is uefi, and will have the installation screen as uefi mode.
But since I purposely do not provide efi partition.
In order to force all installation to prohibit UEFI mode which I did make mistake again with new SSD half a year back on 16.04.4 fresh installation. End up no F12.
And I have to open up my broken notebook to short jumpers again to get F12 BACK.

So the installation process will warn me in all 16.04 flavors, UBUNTU Mint Mate lubuntu kylyn xubuntu.
And I will choose to click on go back button to FORCE BIOS mode installation.


But I did not encounter the same warning from any of my 6-7 times on my LH532 notebook with 18.04 Ubuntu Kylyn nor Lubuntu.
Therefore, I have no chance to force the installation process back to activate BIOS installation mode.

My conclusion the bugs lies in the 3 parts.

1. It did not detect that we have BIOS mode installations in place like the 16.04.4 and older version
(I have not tried 17. at all) so I will keep on going to find efi partition to install uefi ubuntu.

2. It should have check if the efi partition exist before it activate
the efi installation mode.

3. At the end error last 2 warning page freez and stay there until we reboot.
except Lubuntu 18.04 allow us to close the freez warning page. 

I hope the Guru will have some clues by now how to find these bugs and
fix it.

Best Regards

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Title:
  Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
  /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
  /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1739, in <module>
  /plugininstall.py:     install.run()
  /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 61, in wrapper
  /plugininstall.py:     func(self)
  /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 227, in run
  /plugininstall.py:     self.configure_bootloader()
  /plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 971, in configure_bootloader
  /plugininstall.py:     "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
  /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

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  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  MBR-EFI-GPT explanations/requirements:

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/500359/efi-boot-partition-and-biosgrub-partition
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/831216/how-can-i-reinstall-grub-to-the-efi-partition
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/578928/why-i-need-several-boot-partitions-efi-and-bios-grub
  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  Manual fix:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1766945/comments/3

  also see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-
  installer/+bug/1763441/comments/2

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390700

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  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: Sat Apr 28 20:39:35 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=de_DE.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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