When running dist-upgrade from 3.13.0-101 to 3.13.0-102 on a ppc64le system (proposed enabled), it will try to upgrade the grub-ieee1275 package. And it will fail with:
Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.13) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.13) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.13) ...
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
device-mapper: deps ioctl on 1IBM\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20IPR-0\x20\x20\x205EC33900000000A0 failed: No such device or address
device-mapper: deps ioctl on 1IBM\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20IPR-0\x20\x20\x205EC3390000000020 failed: No such device or address
device-mapper: deps ioctl on 1IBM\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20IPR-0\x20\x20\x205EC33900000000C0 failed: No such device or address
device-mapper: deps ioctl on 1IBM\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20IPR-0\x20\x20\x205EC3390000000040 failed: No such device or address
device-mapper: deps ioctl on 1IBM\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20IPR-0\x20\x20\x205EC3390000000060 failed: No such device or address
Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
dpkg: error processing package grub-ieee1275 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up dmsetup (2:1.02.77-6ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.4) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-102-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-ieee1275
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: grub-ieee1275 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.13
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.13.0-101.148-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-101-generic ppc64le
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: ppc64el
Date: Mon Nov 14 09:59:49 2016
ProcLoadAvg: 0.09 0.11 0.06 1/1069 30236
ProcLocks:
1: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3306 00:11:57402 0 EOF
2: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 3224 00:11:66565 0 EOF
3: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3163 00:11:57383 0 EOF
4: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3299 00:11:64543 0 EOF
ProcSwaps:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swap.img file 8388544 0 -1
ProcVersion: Linux version 3.13.0-101-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-026) (gcc version 4.8.4 (User Name 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) ) #148-User Name SMP Thu Oct 20 22:07:50 UTC 2016
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 20
cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 20
cpu_smt: SMT=8
> device-mapper: deps ioctl on 1IBM\x20\
> Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
> grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
This is unlikely to be a bug introduced by the latest SRU, since there were no POWER-related changes in that version of grub. However, if there is a latent problem on some ppc64el installs which means that *any* upgrade of grub will trigger an upgrade failure, that's something we should assess as part of the SRU.