[Bug 828872] Re: Linux Mint installer crashed when trying to install grub-pc

[Chris Lastnamerson]

Seems like it's looking for a CD from which to install grub, and I'm
using a USB stick. Additionally, I already have grub installed from
other endeavors, and it seems unable to detect it. Syslog has this to
say:


Oct 12 13:24:53 mint grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Oct 12 13:24:54 mint grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda5: msdos
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-pc:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:  startupmanager depends on grub | grub-pc; however:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:   Package grub is not installed.
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:   Package grub-pc is to be removed.
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--purge):
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:  dependency problems - not removing
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-gfxpayload-lists:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:  grub-pc depends on grub-gfxpayload-lists.
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-gfxpayload-lists (--purge):
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:  dependency problems - not removing
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer: Errors were encountered while processing:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:  grub-pc
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint grub-installer:  grub-gfxpayload-lists
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint ubiquity: umount: /target/cdrom: not found
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint ubiquity: 
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: log-output -t ubiquity umount /target/cdrom
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint finish-install: Disabling CD in sources.list
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1551, in <module>
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:     install.run()
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:     func(self)
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 201, in run
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:     self.configure_bootloader()
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 844, in configure_bootloader
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:     "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Oct 12 13:24:57 mint plugininstall.py:

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Title:
  Linux Mint installer crashed when trying to install grub-pc

Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Linux Mint USB installer crashes upon trying to install GRUB. The
  logs suggest that dpkg is trying to remove grub-pc but that this is
  failing. I'm not sure why it is trying to remove grub-pc since grub is
  not installed and there seems to be no reason why grub-pc should be
  removed.

  1) Linux Mint 11 Katya
  2) ubiquity 2.6.10-1mint2
      grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3-1mint1
  3) Expected the application to install grub 2 (grub-pc)
  4) The application crashed and stopped upon trying to install grub-pc

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