** Description changed:
+ Ubiquity is attempting to use x86 specific methods such as
+ grub_default() in ubi-partman, which will not work on platforms that do
+ not use GRUB as a bootloade r (such as ARM or PowerPC). This causes the
+ installer to segfault and crash.
+
+ Steps to reproduce:
+ 1.
Tracing through the code, the problem is that ubi-partman is trying to
determine the default device to partition to by calling get_grub_default
which in turn calls grub_default, which tries to call some of the grub
command line utilities; since these are not installed (or available) on
an ARM based
Tested again today with ubiquity 2.3.15. Same failure.
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** Tags added: iso-testing
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