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Install fails with Kubuntu 13.04 on UEFI system

Bug #1178294 reported by Jonathan Riddell
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Bug Description

I installed kubuntu 13.04 on a computer with UEFI and it didn't set up Grub right so nothing would boot
then I installed ubuntu unity 13.04 and it also installed fine
then I installed Kubuntu again and it consistently failed to install with an error

May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: Setting up secureboot-db (1.1) ...
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: Can't access efivars filesystem at /sys/firmware/efi/efivars, aborting
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: Errors were encountered while processing:
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: grub-efi-amd64
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: grub-efi-amd64-signed
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: E
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: :
May 9 16:52:54 kubuntu ubiquity: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :
tags: added: kubuntu
Jonathan Riddell (jr)
description: updated
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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

more notes http://blogs.kde.org/2013/05/09/breakouts-uefi

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
tags: added: ubiquity-2.14.8
tags: added: raring
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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

17:20 < cjwatson> Riddell: FWIW the problems you blogged about look awfully like the ones that Steve McIntyre fixed at the 11th hour before wheezy
17:20 < cjwatson> Yeah, specifically Debian #698914
17:20 < ubottu> Debian bug 698914 in grub-efi "grub-efi booting Windows 8 in UEFI mode" [Serious,Fixed] http://bugs.debian.org/698914

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

There's a bit more than that though.

May 9 16:52:52 kubuntu kernel: [ 963.104311] efivars: set_variable() failed: status=8000000000000009

I wonder if this is the perennial problem with some firmware not having enough variable space. The kernel folks know more about that than I do ...

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z (steveriley-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I think this is another manifestation of the problem documented in bug 1167622. See the description for details.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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gigi (georg-drews) wrote :

@Steve Riley:
Is your Laptops one of those, which has a real harddisk AND a SSD inside (hybrid-harddisk) ?
If yes, then my research has lead me to the point, that the installer falsely assumes, there is a full operateable raid-controller inside, which is not.
See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake_RAID

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
tags: added: amd64
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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