Comment 44 for bug 1767703

I successfully solved this problem by reinstalling windows and then
installing Ubuntu.

On Thu, May 10, 2018, 9:41 PM Graham Mitchell <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I've been running Linux as my sole OS since 2001 and have been dual-
> booting Windows and Linux since the summer of 2015.
>
> In particular, Windows 7 with Ubuntu 15.04.
>
> Upgraded in-place to 15.10 in December 2015. Then to 16.04 in May 2016.
> Upgraded the Windows side to Windows 10 without issue in July 2016. Then
> Ubuntu 16.10 in October of that year. Then 17.04 when it came out then
> 17.10, and finally 18.04 -- all upgraded in place.
>
> However, I managed to hit some Ubiquity bug, so video game performance was
> degraded:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1733136
>
> I tried following the steps in the bug and messed something up,
> corrupting my graphical system.
>
> No worries! Just make a Ubuntu 18.04 boot disk and fix things that way!
> Guess I'm due for a clean install anyway.
>
> Used my wife's Windows PC to make a bootable USB installer and booted my
> machine off of that. Told it to install "alongside" the existing Ubuntu
> partition. Install seems normal and takes fifteen minutes or so. At the
> VERY end: ERROR. "Sorry, your system might be in an unusable state." Um,
> thanks?
>
> Tried lots and lots of things. No dice. Everything I tried THOUGHT it
> could install Ubuntu just fine but then would error out at the very end.
>
> Eventually I just had to remove all the partitions from the disk and
> create one new single EXT4 partition and install Ubuntu from scratch.
> Which actually worked.
>
> Lost all the files on my Windows partition, since I never dreamed that
> an Ubuntu installer in 2018 would mess THAT up. Would have lost my Linux
> files, too, but I actually back those up and in particular had done a
> full backup the night before "just in case."
>
> This is a bug.
>
> If the installer can't successfully do its thing, it needs to tell the
> user that BEFORE it has permanently altered partitions with gParted.
>
> Bugs happen. I get that. I ain't even mad.
>
> But to call a bug with 173 duplicates "invalid" just because the very
> first person who successfully reported it theoretically had a workaround
> is unacceptable.
>
> Our situations are not the same as theirs.
>
> > A warning message prompted you that this
> > could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install
> > instead, but you chose not to
>
> This is literally false. I never saw any such message. My bug is marked
> as a duplicate of this bug. So either mine is not a duplicate or this
> bug should still be OPEN.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1767418).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767703
>
> Title:
> Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed
>
> Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
> /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
> /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line
> 1739, in <module>
> /plugininstall.py: install.run()
> /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line
> 61, in wrapper
> /plugininstall.py: func(self)
> /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line
> 227, in run
> /plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
> /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line
> 971, in configure_bootloader
> /plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
> /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller
> failed with code 1
>
> ************************
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> MBR-EFI-GPT explanations/requirements:
>
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/500359/efi-boot-partition-and-biosgrub-partition
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/831216/how-can-i-reinstall-grub-to-the-efi-partition
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/578928/why-i-need-several-boot-partitions-efi-and-bios-grub
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Manual fix:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1766945/comments/3
>
> also see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-
> installer/+bug/1763441/comments/2
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
>
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390700
>
> ************************
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
> Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperVersion: 1.394
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Sat Apr 28 20:39:35 2018
> InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
> file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20180426)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: grub-installer
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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