installation of grub-efi-amd64-signed fails due to "efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error."
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grub |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
|||
| grub2-signed (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
After an upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 the installation of grub-efi-
```
Setting up grub-efi-
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-
installed grub-efi-
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-efi-
```
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: grub-efi-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 28 12:28:01 2018
SourcePackage: grub2-signed
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-21 (6 days ago)
| Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722) wrote | #1 |
| description: | updated |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in grub2-signed (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.