[Bug 1805876] [NEW] BTRFS-Install; separate home-partition; dual-boot; grub-efi fails

[Claudius Raphael Paeth]

Public bug reported:

Ubiquity fails to install Grub on existing ESP (EFI-System-Partition)
for Dual-Boot of Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 Release to existing Windows 10
Professional.

Disk is a 320GB HDD SATA, GPT, EFI System Partition and an existing
Windows-Partition.

Installed Ubuntu 18.04 for / on BTRFS, plus a separate /home on BTRFS.

Just for the sake of completeness, tried to install Cosmic, Yakkety,
Xenial and Trusty in exact same manner and they all do complete.

Reproducible for all variants of Grub-Target-Option, namingly GPT-pMBR,
BIOS_GRUB, /efi/boot (ESP), separate /boot (ext-|-2|-3|-4).

Standard and OEM-Install.

---

Haven't looked into Ubiquity-Source, but would assume, that between
previous (<bionic) and latest (>bionic) something has changed as only
bionic fails to replace BOOTX64 (as set before through Windows 10); If
BOOTX64 is deleted before install via ubiquity the installer works
correctly, identical to cosmic.

---

Hope it helps.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Nov 29 17:58:47 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash oem-config/enable=true ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
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)

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubiquity-18.04.14.6 ubuntu

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Title:
  BTRFS-Install; separate home-partition; dual-boot; grub-efi fails

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubiquity fails to install Grub on existing ESP (EFI-System-Partition)
  for Dual-Boot of Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 Release to existing Windows 10
  Professional.

  Disk is a 320GB HDD SATA, GPT, EFI System Partition and an existing
  Windows-Partition.

  Installed Ubuntu 18.04 for / on BTRFS, plus a separate /home on BTRFS.

  Just for the sake of completeness, tried to install Cosmic, Yakkety,
  Xenial and Trusty in exact same manner and they all do complete.

  Reproducible for all variants of Grub-Target-Option, namingly GPT-
  pMBR, BIOS_GRUB, /efi/boot (ESP), separate /boot (ext-|-2|-3|-4).

  Standard and OEM-Install.

  ---

  Haven't looked into Ubiquity-Source, but would assume, that between
  previous (<bionic) and latest (>bionic) something has changed as only
  bionic fails to replace BOOTX64 (as set before through Windows 10); If
  BOOTX64 is deleted before install via ubiquity the installer works
  correctly, identical to cosmic.

  ---

  Hope it helps.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Nov 29 17:58:47 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash oem-config/enable=true ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  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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