[Bug 1767523] Re: Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't install from 18.04 pendrive

[Phillip Susi]

You tried to install grub to your NVME drive, but it has no partition
table.  You will need to either partition the drive or install grub to
another drive.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't
  install from 18.04 pendrive

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  LENOVO with uefi installation fails due to inability to write boot
  loader. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 worked OK  but update to 18.04 failed due to
  Xwinows configurtion. It was possible to login using Control-Alt-F1
  but xinit or startx gave errors and failed.

  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
  Date: Sat Apr 28 00:42:29 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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