[Bug 1639620] [NEW] Installation crashes on grub install

[Larry Brown]

Public bug reported:

Cannot install grub on /dev/sda.  This is a critical error, Continue
without installing grub?  You will need to install manually.  Okay, ...
Critical error can not continue....report error?

Sorry, details a little jumbled as I am reporting from memory.  Logs
should tell much more and better.  This is the third disk I have made
from the ISO download.  All are flawed and fail to boot, or install, but
at different points.  I have tried with three different drives.  This is
the second download of the ISO.  Very large difference in the size from
September to October.

One more point.  The original issue was the Upgrade/Distribution
Upgrade, which failed seemingly due to missing Perl packages.  This
completely ruined the original installation I have not been able to
recover the machine.  Personal data is backed up, so that is not an
issue.  Seems there are real problems with this upgrade.  I have two
more machines I would like to upgrade, but I am not touching them until
I get this one right.

Larry Brown
brown310lar at sbcglobal.net

P.S., didn't you close Ubuntu One two years ago?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-lowlatency 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Sun Nov  6 14:31:31 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-2.21.63.2 ubuntustudio xenial

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Title:
  Installation crashes on grub install

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Cannot install grub on /dev/sda.  This is a critical error, Continue
  without installing grub?  You will need to install manually.  Okay,
  ... Critical error can not continue....report error?

  Sorry, details a little jumbled as I am reporting from memory.  Logs
  should tell much more and better.  This is the third disk I have made
  from the ISO download.  All are flawed and fail to boot, or install,
  but at different points.  I have tried with three different drives.
  This is the second download of the ISO.  Very large difference in the
  size from September to October.

  One more point.  The original issue was the Upgrade/Distribution
  Upgrade, which failed seemingly due to missing Perl packages.  This
  completely ruined the original installation I have not been able to
  recover the machine.  Personal data is backed up, so that is not an
  issue.  Seems there are real problems with this upgrade.  I have two
  more machines I would like to upgrade, but I am not touching them
  until I get this one right.

  Larry Brown
  brown310lar at sbcglobal.net

  P.S., didn't you close Ubuntu One two years ago?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-lowlatency 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Sun Nov  6 14:31:31 2016
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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