[Bug 1314350] Re: do-release-upgrade --sandbox will always fail at installing grub
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Title:
do-release-upgrade --sandbox will always fail at installing grub
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
The whole point of --sandbox is that permanent "system level" changes
cannot be made. For most packages the aufs overlay provides the
allusion of a writable system without actually writing any changes.
Grub, by its nature, needs to be able to see the world as it actually
is, and so the aufs overlay is not transparent and grub thankfully
fails rather than writing to /dev/sda (which is not part of the
overlay) and making the system unbootable when asked to by the grub-pc
package which runs "grub-install /dev/sda".
When running in sandbox mode, somehow any attempts to run grub-
mkconfig or grub-install (or direct use of efibootmgr when dealing
with shim on UEFI systems) should be prevented, and their inability to
run should not be considered an error.
Alternatively, it should be at least documented that do-release-
upgrade --sandbox will *always* lead to a failed upgrade (with the
possible exception of some paravirt / container installations where
the bootloader is not upgraded in the guest).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-61.92-generic 3.2.55
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-61-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Tue Apr 29 11:11:35 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-29 (669 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-29 (0 days ago)
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