Public bug reported:
We currently have 6 open bug reports at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim-signed>, and several
closed ones, from users who have by one means or another gotten
/boot/efi unmounted on their systems and then tried to apply updates.
On a UEFI system, /boot/efi must be a separate mount point (it's the EFI
System Partition); and it must be mounted at the time of upgrading the
shim-signed/grub-efi-amd64 packages, because it's meaningless to
"upgrade" these packages without installing the new bootloader to the
ESP - if you don't want to use the Ubuntu UEFI bootloader, uninstall the
package.
However, a surprising number of users (i.e., more than 0) are leaving
/boot/efi unmounted on their systems, and as a result get upgrade
failures. This is a bad thing to have happen in the middle of a dist-
upgrade between releases.
I think u-r-u should detect the case where either of the shim-signed and
grub-efi-amd64 packages are installed, and /boot/efi is not in a sane
state (is mountpoint + is mounted rw), and refuse to let the user start
the upgrade until this is resolved.
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
Status: Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Foundations Team
(canonical-foundations)
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-17.10
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Title:
users shoot themselves in the foot by removing /boot/efi from
/etc/fstab; u-r-u should warn and refuse to let them upgrade
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