[Bug 1788727] Re: upgrade crashing due to unsigned kernels

[josh]

Isn't this a big security issue?

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:25 AM Steve Kowalik <stevenk at debian.org>
wrote:

> I hit this last night, it didn't impact booting, but it did fail the
> upgrade, which I had to fix up post-reboot with dpkg --configure -a.
> This should not be necessary. The problem is the *running* kernel from
> 16.04 is unsigned, and that is what the postinst complains about. I
> would welcome an SRU to 16.04 adding a signed kernel.
>
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> Title:
>   upgrade crashing due to unsigned kernels
>
> Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   not surre  happened during upgrade to bionic beaver
>
>   ProblemType: Package
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
>   Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.02-2ubuntu8.3
>   Uname: Linux 4.7.0-040700-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Thu Aug 23 19:33:07 2018
>   ErrorMessage: installed grub-efi-amd64 package post-installation script
> subprocess returned error exit status 1
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-30 (85 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20160420.1)
>   ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-040700-generic
> root=UUID=d9d727a6-5798-4fe1-8ac0-fb79b1d05431 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal,
> 3.6.5-3ubuntu1
>   PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal,
> 2.7.15~rc1-1
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
>    apt  1.6.3ubuntu0.1
>   SourcePackage: grub2
>   Title: package grub-efi-amd64 2.02-2ubuntu8.3 failed to install/upgrade:
> installed grub-efi-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 1
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-23 (0 days ago)
>
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Title:
  upgrade crashing due to unsigned kernels

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  not surre  happened during upgrade to bionic beaver

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.02-2ubuntu8.3
  Uname: Linux 4.7.0-040700-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 23 19:33:07 2018
  ErrorMessage: installed grub-efi-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-30 (85 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-040700-generic root=UUID=d9d727a6-5798-4fe1-8ac0-fb79b1d05431 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3ubuntu1
  PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
   apt  1.6.3ubuntu0.1
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Title: package grub-efi-amd64 2.02-2ubuntu8.3 failed to install/upgrade: installed grub-efi-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-23 (0 days ago)

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