Public bug reported:
Attempted installation of Ubuntu 16.04.3 on an Acer Travelmate Spin B1.
It appears to hang during installation of the grub package (it's
difficult to tell due to the lack of a storage indicator light on the
laptop, but after waiting quarter of an hour with no change in the
process I figured a hang was a safe assumption). Digging into the
process tree indicated that the grub package was attempting to run:
cat /sys/firmware/efi/vars/OsIndicationsSupported-8be4df61-93ca-11d2
-aa0d-00e098032b8c/data
And this appears to hang on this platform (I attempted it manually from
a terminal). I killed the offending command (with sudo kill <pid>) to
see if the installer would eventually determine things had gone wrong
and quit sensibly. It eventually did, but only after a few more "sudo
kill" operations on various hung processes. I'd assume this is down to
something horribly strange about Acer's UEFI setup which I'll spend
tomorrow googling!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.4 [modified:
lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Wed Oct 18 00:03:23 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed
boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-2.21.63.4 ubuntu xenial
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Installation on an Acer Travelmate Spin B1 hangs during grub package
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