default should be to disable Secure Boot when installing third-party drivers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Users choosing to install third-party drivers for their system at installation time.
[Test case]
1) Start ubiquity install
2) On the prepare screen, pick "Install third-party drivers"
The install should automatically have the "Disable Secure Boot" checkbox checked.
[Regression Potential]
Doing this will block the installer while users enter a password to use to disable Secure Boot, or go uncheck the checkbox. Possible failure cases might be crashes due to errors in mokutil or in the kernel handling of efi variables which might have ubiquity crash. This happens early in the installer process, before any changes are made to the system.
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The default behavior in ubiquity when installing third-party drivers should be to suggest disabling Secure Boot, as it may otherwise be missed due to confusion. Third-party drivers of the type installed in that option in ubiquity are typically dkms packages which will need Secure Boot disabled in shim to work correctly.
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
I think this caused a regression. See bug 1612450 and bug 1612449.