Public bug reported:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation from Parallels to Virtualbox,
which naturally resulted in updated disks' UUIDs. Normally that should
be a problem as Ubuntu should autodetect such change and act
accordingly.
However, upon upgrading grub-efi-amd64-signed, dpkg kept failing with:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.142.4+2.04-1ubuntu26.2) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1 do
es not exist.
The Parallel's disk ID that it attempts to mount indeed no longer
exists. The EFI partition is correctly mounted at /boot/efi, since the
/etc/fstab uses partition' UUID to address it and that didn't change
during the migration, so there's no reason why the script should be
failing.
The debconf shows the following:
dawidw@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-get-selections | grep grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline_default string quiet splash i8042.nopnp
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/update_nvram boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/no_efi_extra_removable boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_disks_changed multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_empty boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_failed boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default string quiet splash
Note that it recored the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1" UUID of the disk that contains the EFI
partition.
I debugged it further and can see that the failure happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
1) in "# We either migrate /boot/efi over, or we check if we have invalid
devices" section, it correctly detects that the Parallels device does not exist
("if [ ! -e "${device%,}" ]", setting the valid=0
2) given that valid=0, my understanding is that at this point the
"install_devices_disks_changed" prompt should be triggered, but it is not.
3) the "$RET" variable still contains both of the disks from
grub-efi/install_devices
4) in "# Run the installer" section, the script iterates over each of the
disks, attempting to mount ("mount $real_device $mntpoint) the non-existing
one, which results in the aforementioned script failure.
My understanding here is that there are two problems:
1) "install_devices_disks_changed" prompt was not shown
2) there's no check for whether the device exists at all before the script
proceeds with mounting and grub-installation attempt
** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation from Parallels to Virtualbox,
which naturally resulted in updated disks' UUIDs. Normally that should
be a problem as Ubuntu should autodetect such change and act
accordingly.
However, upon upgrading grub-efi-amd64-signed, dpkg kept failing with:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.142.4+2.04-1ubuntu26.2) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1 do
es not exist.
The Parallel's disk ID that it attempts to mount indeed no longer
exists. The EFI partition is correctly mounted at /boot/efi, since the
/etc/fstab uses partition UUID to mount it and that didn't change, so
there's no reason why the script should fail.
The debconf shows the following:
dawidw@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-get-selections | grep grub-efi
- grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
+ grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline_default string quiet splash
i8042.nopnp
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/update_nvram boolean true
- grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
- grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
+ grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
+ grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/no_efi_extra_removable boolean true
- grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
+ grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_disks_changed multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_empty boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_failed boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default string quiet splash
Note that it detected the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1" UUID of the disk that contains the EFI
partition.
- I debugged it further and can see that the following happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common package):
+ I debugged it further and can see that the following happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
1) in "# We either migrate /boot/efi over, or we check if we have invalid
devices" section, it correctly detects that the Parallels device does not exist
("if [ ! -e "${device%,}" ]", setting the valid=0
2) given that valid=0, my understanding is that at this point the
"install_devices_disks_changed" prompt should be triggered, but it is not.
3) the "$RET" variable still contains both of the disks from
grub-efi/install_devices
4) in "# Run the installer" section, the script iterates over each of the
disks, attempting to mount ("mount $real_device $mntpoint) the non-existing
one, which results in the aforementioned script failure.
My understanding here is that there are two problems:
1) "install_devices_disks_changed" prompt was not shown
2) there's no check for whether the device exists at all before the script
proceeds with mounting and grub-installation attempt
** Package changed: grub2-signed (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu)
** Description changed:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation from Parallels to Virtualbox,
which naturally resulted in updated disks' UUIDs. Normally that should
be a problem as Ubuntu should autodetect such change and act
accordingly.
However, upon upgrading grub-efi-amd64-signed, dpkg kept failing with:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.142.4+2.04-1ubuntu26.2) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1 do
es not exist.
The Parallel's disk ID that it attempts to mount indeed no longer
exists. The EFI partition is correctly mounted at /boot/efi, since the
- /etc/fstab uses partition UUID to mount it and that didn't change, so
- there's no reason why the script should fail.
+ /etc/fstab uses partition' UUID to address it and that didn't change
+ during the migration, so there's no reason why the script should fail.
The debconf shows the following:
dawidw@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-get-selections | grep grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline_default string quiet splash
i8042.nopnp
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/update_nvram boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/no_efi_extra_removable boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_disks_changed multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_empty boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_failed boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default string quiet splash
Note that it detected the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1" UUID of the disk that contains the EFI
partition.
I debugged it further and can see that the following happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
1) in "# We either migrate /boot/efi over, or we check if we have invalid
devices" section, it correctly detects that the Parallels device does not exist
("if [ ! -e "${device%,}" ]", setting the valid=0
2) given that valid=0, my understanding is that at this point the
"install_devices_disks_changed" prompt should be triggered, but it is not.
3) the "$RET" variable still contains both of the disks from
grub-efi/install_devices
4) in "# Run the installer" section, the script iterates over each of the
disks, attempting to mount ("mount $real_device $mntpoint) the non-existing
one, which results in the aforementioned script failure.
My understanding here is that there are two problems:
1) "install_devices_disks_changed" prompt was not shown
2) there's no check for whether the device exists at all before the script
proceeds with mounting and grub-installation attempt
** Description changed:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation from Parallels to Virtualbox,
which naturally resulted in updated disks' UUIDs. Normally that should
be a problem as Ubuntu should autodetect such change and act
accordingly.
However, upon upgrading grub-efi-amd64-signed, dpkg kept failing with:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.142.4+2.04-1ubuntu26.2) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1 do
es not exist.
The Parallel's disk ID that it attempts to mount indeed no longer
exists. The EFI partition is correctly mounted at /boot/efi, since the
/etc/fstab uses partition' UUID to address it and that didn't change
- during the migration, so there's no reason why the script should fail.
+ during the migration, so there's no reason why the script should be
+ failing.
The debconf shows the following:
dawidw@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-get-selections | grep grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline_default string quiet splash
i8042.nopnp
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/update_nvram boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/no_efi_extra_removable boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_disks_changed multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_empty boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_failed boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default string quiet splash
Note that it detected the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1" UUID of the disk that contains the EFI
partition.
I debugged it further and can see that the following happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
1) in "# We either migrate /boot/efi over, or we check if we have invalid
devices" section, it correctly detects that the Parallels device does not exist
("if [ ! -e "${device%,}" ]", setting the valid=0
2) given that valid=0, my understanding is that at this point the
"install_devices_disks_changed" prompt should be triggered, but it is not.
3) the "$RET" variable still contains both of the disks from
grub-efi/install_devices
4) in "# Run the installer" section, the script iterates over each of the
disks, attempting to mount ("mount $real_device $mntpoint) the non-existing
one, which results in the aforementioned script failure.
My understanding here is that there are two problems:
1) "install_devices_disks_changed" prompt was not shown
2) there's no check for whether the device exists at all before the script
proceeds with mounting and grub-installation attempt
** Description changed:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation from Parallels to Virtualbox,
which naturally resulted in updated disks' UUIDs. Normally that should
be a problem as Ubuntu should autodetect such change and act
accordingly.
However, upon upgrading grub-efi-amd64-signed, dpkg kept failing with:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.142.4+2.04-1ubuntu26.2) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1 do
es not exist.
The Parallel's disk ID that it attempts to mount indeed no longer
exists. The EFI partition is correctly mounted at /boot/efi, since the
/etc/fstab uses partition' UUID to address it and that didn't change
during the migration, so there's no reason why the script should be
failing.
The debconf shows the following:
dawidw@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-get-selections | grep grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline_default string quiet splash
i8042.nopnp
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/update_nvram boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/no_efi_extra_removable boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_disks_changed multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_empty boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_failed boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default string quiet splash
- Note that it detected the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
+ Note that it recored the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1" UUID of the disk that contains the EFI
partition.
I debugged it further and can see that the following happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
1) in "# We either migrate /boot/efi over, or we check if we have invalid
devices" section, it correctly detects that the Parallels device does not exist
("if [ ! -e "${device%,}" ]", setting the valid=0
2) given that valid=0, my understanding is that at this point the
"install_devices_disks_changed" prompt should be triggered, but it is not.
3) the "$RET" variable still contains both of the disks from
grub-efi/install_devices
4) in "# Run the installer" section, the script iterates over each of the
disks, attempting to mount ("mount $real_device $mntpoint) the non-existing
one, which results in the aforementioned script failure.
My understanding here is that there are two problems:
1) "install_devices_disks_changed" prompt was not shown
2) there's no check for whether the device exists at all before the script
proceeds with mounting and grub-installation attempt
** Description changed:
I recently moved my Ubuntu installation from Parallels to Virtualbox,
which naturally resulted in updated disks' UUIDs. Normally that should
be a problem as Ubuntu should autodetect such change and act
accordingly.
However, upon upgrading grub-efi-amd64-signed, dpkg kept failing with:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.142.4+2.04-1ubuntu26.2) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1 do
es not exist.
The Parallel's disk ID that it attempts to mount indeed no longer
exists. The EFI partition is correctly mounted at /boot/efi, since the
/etc/fstab uses partition' UUID to address it and that didn't change
during the migration, so there's no reason why the script should be
failing.
The debconf shows the following:
dawidw@ubuntu:~$ sudo debconf-get-selections | grep grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline_default string quiet splash
i8042.nopnp
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/update_nvram boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/linux_cmdline string
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/unsigned_kernels note
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/no_efi_extra_removable boolean true
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/device_map_regenerated note
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_disks_changed multiselect
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Ubuntu_Linux-1_SSD_SF74YQ6DP1KMD07F8JED-part1,
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_empty boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi/install_devices_failed boolean false
grub-efi-amd64 grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default string quiet splash
Note that it recored the new, correct "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
VBOX_HARDDISK_VB1-1a2b3c4d-part1" UUID of the disk that contains the EFI
partition.
- I debugged it further and can see that the following happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
+ I debugged it further and can see that the failure happens in
/usr/lib/grub/grub-multi-install (which is part of grub-common 2.04-1ubuntu26.2
package):
1) in "# We either migrate /boot/efi over, or we check if we have invalid
devices" section, it correctly detects that the Parallels device does not exist
("if [ ! -e "${device%,}" ]", setting the valid=0
2) given that valid=0, my understanding is that at this point the
"install_devices_disks_changed" prompt should be triggered, but it is not.
3) the "$RET" variable still contains both of the disks from
grub-efi/install_devices
4) in "# Run the installer" section, the script iterates over each of the
disks, attempting to mount ("mount $real_device $mntpoint) the non-existing
one, which results in the aforementioned script failure.
My understanding here is that there are two problems:
1) "install_devices_disks_changed" prompt was not shown
2) there's no check for whether the device exists at all before the script
proceeds with mounting and grub-installation attempt
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