URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55005>
Summary: installation of grub-efi-amd64-signed fails due to
"efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error."
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: krichter
Submitted on: Sun 11 Nov 2018 11:46:51 AM UTC
Category: Installation
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: 2.02
Reproducibility: None
Planned Release: None
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Details:
After an Ubuntu upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 the installation of
grub-efi-amd64-signed fails due to
```
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.110+2.02+dfsg1-5ubuntu8) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Could not prepare Boot variable: Invalid argument
grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry:
Input/output error.
dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
installed grub-efi-amd64-signed package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-efi-amd64-signed
```
on a Lenovo IdeaPad-Z500-Touch with secure boot disabled (enabling isn't
possible because the Ubuntu images are refused).
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