Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Fatal Error

Bug #1896525 reported by Frogs Hair on 2020-09-21

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This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

An error message stated grub could not be installed, but was. The installation seemed complete, but there are shared lib errors and installed applications were not listed in usr/share/applications.

I just found that Ubiquity was still on my system and there was an install system icon in the menu which was removed after running sudo apt-get remove ubiquity.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-18.19-generic 5.8.4
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Mon Sep 21 14:06:24 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-18-generic root=UUID=17523ed6-8fb4-4c80-9a32-1459417b4f9b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Frogs Hair (detaill) wrote on 2020-09-21:

#1

ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1000 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (592.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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ChrisOfBristol (chrisofbristol-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2020-10-09:

#2

Error message Edit (486.9 KiB, image/jpeg)

I had the same or a similar problem with installing Ubuntu Budgie 20.10.

I hadn't checked the disk with Gparted beforehand as I have never had a problem before and the partitions are normally shown and selectable/changeable as part of the Ubuntu installation process, which I assume should detect errors.

I went on install Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 instead and there were no problems. That suggests to me that there was nothing wrong with my disk and that the problem was caused by a new version of Ubiquity in 20.10 which has a bug.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-10-09:

#3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) wrote on 2020-10-09:

#4

I downloaded Lubuntu 20.10 to install in virtual box.
The installation started with Shell instead of the installer.
UEFI Interactive Shell v2.2 with Mapping table.
This should be reviewed on all 20.10 Distributions.
I was not able to start the installation due to a failure in the installer.

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ajgreeny (ajg-charlbury) wrote on 2020-10-12:

#5

I had this problem with Xubuntu 20.10 trying to install using KVM/QEMU but as it was only a VM i wiped it clean, tried formatting the partition with a gpt partition table and created both an EFI and a bios-boot partition but still no joy. I'm not sure if you can use gpt and UEFI within a KVM install, so that may be a "red herring"

I will try again today and ignore the error in the hope that grub has actually been installed.
Watch this space.

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