[Bug 1991633] Re: error message executing grub-install /dev/sda failed

[Dan Bungert]

Oct  4 07:30:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity mount --bind /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Oct  4 07:30:40 ubuntu grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Oct  4 07:30:40 ubuntu ubiquity: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[63355]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 29905: /bin/sh
Oct  4 07:30:40 ubuntu ubiquity:   Volume group "sda" not found
Oct  4 07:30:40 ubuntu ubiquity:   Cannot process volume group sda
Oct  4 07:30:40 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda1: gpt
Oct  4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Oct  4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Oct  4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"
Oct  4 07:30:41 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Oct  4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: Cannot set EFI variable Boot0005.
Oct  4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 8 failed: Invalid argument.
Oct  4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: _efi_set_variable_mode: ops->set_variable() failed: Invalid argument.
Oct  4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Invalid argument.
Oct  4 07:30:57 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"' failed.

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Title:
  error message executing grub-install /dev/sda failed

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  tam trying to install ubuntu using usb but am getting the above errror

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: ubiquity 22.04.17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-43.46-generic 5.15.39
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.470
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Oct  4 10:43:41 2022
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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