Comment 10 for bug 1872077

When I pass the device it shuts up..

OKAY .. my initial report was bug 1872097 my original and still existing install partition (sda5) for focal ( dec 2019) I used dpkg-reconfigure there and of course then debconf-get-selections did not give the correct info ..

So I created a new partition (sda6) on the drive using existing free space and manually installed focal there as a second instance using a recent (03/28) iso (xubuntu). This was a not connected to network install as my wireless net work driver is not on the install disk (rtl8821ce-dkms) (installed via a brief chroot prior to first boot)

also on the drive are windows 10 partitions at sda1,sda3,sda4 plus sda2 which is the /boot/efi (EFI) partition. (always mounted to /boot/efi so far as I know by default)

SDA6-order of events:

I booted into the fresh install (after network driver was installed). I did the first upgrade on sda6 using the software updater after running the language updater which appeared first.

During this install the grub-efi-amd64-signed setup threw up a window complaining the partition sda2 had changed or did not exist.. It had one check box for proceeding .. and a continue button .. then a second message appeared with some thing that looked like this:

 grub-efi /dev/sda2 device ?? parition ?? changed or does not exist

hovering over this gave a message about systems without a bios or in a vm being etc. grub not being needed also that I might not be able to boot if I did install

There were two buttons to continue or not-install(?).. I chose to not install .. so the /boot/efi entries remained the same as first installed.

Then I installed debconf-utils and then ran debconf-get-selections as directed in comment #2
output as in comment #5

Then I rebooted to partition sda5 and tried to reinstall it as the primary start-up Comments 6,7,8) trying to overwrite the /boot/efi (/dev/sda2 [EFI]) partition so my normal boot would be directly into the main xubuntu install on sda5.

output in comments #6 most of output) and #7 (with the omitted last line)

I then ran the commands in comment #8 .. checked the time stamps on the /boot/efi partition and they had changed ..

I hope this clarifies things.

so it is easy to reproduce this bug .. with and older fresh install of ubuntu (xubuntu) focal
just do it networkless on a computer with a windows 10 install