[Bug 1915968] [NEW] grub is crashing. I think it doesn't have enought space on EFI

[Carlos Vera]

Public bug reported:

A fatal error occurred while installing Ubuntu, however it had already
happened to me while trying to install Archlinux, I actually pass to
Ubuntu, because of the automatic process, however, in both cases the
fatal error happened with grub. But in Arch i got more info of the
moment and the message (I took a photo):

It was after the command:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot

And the message said:
grub-install: error: cannot open directory `/boot/grub/locale`: No such file or directory.

I tryed creatitng it manually with mkdir, but I got the following message:
error: No space left on device

The EFI partition was mounted in /boot, but I think it is too small (99
MB) so grub-install is crashing as it seems that it needs to add write
folder and files on it.

I hope that may be useful.

Regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity 20.04.15.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.445.1
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Feb 18 01:09:56 2021
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=es_ES.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 focal ubiquity-20.04.15.2 ubuntu

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Title:
  grub is crashing. I think it doesn't have enought space on EFI

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  A fatal error occurred while installing Ubuntu, however it had already
  happened to me while trying to install Archlinux, I actually pass to
  Ubuntu, because of the automatic process, however, in both cases the
  fatal error happened with grub. But in Arch i got more info of the
  moment and the message (I took a photo):

  It was after the command:
  grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot

  And the message said:
  grub-install: error: cannot open directory `/boot/grub/locale`: No such file or directory.

  I tryed creatitng it manually with mkdir, but I got the following message:
  error: No space left on device

  The EFI partition was mounted in /boot, but I think it is too small
  (99 MB) so grub-install is crashing as it seems that it needs to add
  write folder and files on it.

  I hope that may be useful.

  Regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubiquity 20.04.15.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.445.1
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Feb 18 01:09:56 2021
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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