Comment 12 for bug 1792948

Hello Manoj,

thanks for looking into this,
it looks like this is hardware related. I can reproduce this on node "modoc" but not "entei"

ubuntu@modoc:~$ uname -a
Linux modoc 3.13.0-164-generic #214-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 10:40:29 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

ubuntu@modoc:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
.....
Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
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\x205EC33900000000C0 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\x205EC3390000000060 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
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 landscape-common (14.12-0ubuntu6.14.04.4) ...
.....

ubuntu@modoc:~$ sudo apt-cache policy grub-ieee1275
grub-ieee1275:
  Installed: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16
  Candidate: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16
  Version table:
 *** 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-proposed/main ppc64el Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.15 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-updates/main ppc64el Packages
     2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-security/main ppc64el Packages
     2.02~beta2-9 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty/main ppc64el Packages

For node entei:
ubuntu@entei:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
.....
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Setting up krb5-locales (1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4) ...
Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
Setting up grub-ieee1275 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.16) ...
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...