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package shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #1565578 reported by jandro on 2016-04-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1282375: trusty upgrade: grub-install fails with odd file error. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub2 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04beta2 with `sudo do-release-upgrade -d`.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-51.58~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt13
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-51-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
BootEFIContents:
fw
fwupx64.efi
System
Date: Sun Apr 3 21:26:36 2016
EFIBootMgr:
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 5 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS HD(1,GPT,423ece3e-d1e0-4c1f-b02d-9c26495368b4,0x800,0x100000)/File(\System\Library\CoreServices)
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-26 (99 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
apt 1.2.9
SourcePackage: shim-signed
Title: package shim-signed 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-04 (0 days ago)

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jandro (thejandroman) wrote on 2016-04-04:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (104.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (95.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (114.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (79.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)
HookError_ubuntu.txt Edit (783 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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jandro (thejandroman) wrote on 2016-04-04:

Seems related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1282375

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jandro (thejandroman) wrote on 2016-04-04:

Was seeing `hfsplus: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. mounting read-only.` in dmesg so i unmounted /boot/efi and ran fsck on it. Remounted it rw. Now getting a new error:

Setting up shim-signed (1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: Can't create file: No such file or directory.
dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
shim-signed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)