[Bug 1921958] Re: Ubiquity fatal error : "cannot create grub on /dev/sda"

[Brian Murray]

>From ubiquity syslog:

Mar 30 21:19:08 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda9: msdos
Mar 30 21:19:09 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Mar 30 21:19:09 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Mar 30 21:19:09 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"
Mar 30 21:19:09 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: Installeren voor x86_64-efi-platform.
Mar 30 21:19:15 ubuntu-budgie budgie-wm.desktop[6990]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x4400084
Mar 30 21:19:19 ubuntu-budgie budgie-wm.desktop[6990]: Window manager warning: Ping serial 1492907 was reused for window 0x40047db, previous use was for window 0x4000007.
Mar 30 21:19:22 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: grub-install: waarschuwing: Internal error.
Mar 30 21:19:22 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: grub-install: fout: kon de EFI-opstartregel niet registreren: Actie is niet toegestaan.
Mar 30 21:19:22 ubuntu-budgie grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"' failed.

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Title:
  Ubiquity fatal error : "cannot create grub on /dev/sda"

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On 21.04 install, early in the process, "ubi-partman failed with exit
  code 141. Then on choosing "retry", all seems to succeed. At the end
  of the install however: "fatal error : "cannot create grub on
  /dev/sda"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: ubiquity 21.04.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-11.12-generic 5.11.0
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.461
  Date: Tue Mar 30 23:22:17 2021
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-budgie.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Budgie 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210330)
  RebootRequiredPkgs:
   linux-image-5.11.0-11-generic
   linux-base
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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