Ubuntu 20.04 and grub-efi-amd64-signed

[MyreMylar]

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Hello,

Recently we have been consistently get the following errors with grub-efi-amd64-signed on all Ubuntu 20.04 actions test runs:

Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.187.3~20.04.1+2.06-2ubuntu14.1) ...
mount: /var/lib/grub/esp: special device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202076e4e0de6b21a348aa1740149647cee7-part15 does not exist.
dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
 installed grub-efi-amd64-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 32

Or:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 grub-efi-amd64-signed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

These workflows have worked fine for a long time on 20.04 and still work fine on other versions of ubuntu (18.04 and 22.04).
We can bypass it by deliberately not installing grub-efi-amd64-signed but it adds an extra step to the normal setup workflow and we thought other users might also be affected. The normal setup workflow is just:

sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo apt-get upgrade

And to bypass the error we have just done:

sudo apt-mark hold grub-efi-amd64-signed
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo apt-get upgrade

Instead.

Cheers,

Dan
Pygame CE

[JJ]

Also getting this error here

[jlblancoc]

And here now too...

[Danik2343]

i have this issue too

[r4m0n3s]

on 22.04 as well.

root@a1333s05:~# apt-mark hold grub-efi-amd64-signed
grub-efi-amd64-signed was already set on hold.
root@a1333s05:~# apt-get update --fix-missing
...
Fetched 270 kB in 1s (479 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@a1333s05:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  python3-software-properties software-properties-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

once I confirm yes I get it back

[Danik2343]

It's fixed! Yeah!

[MyreMylar]

This seems to have returned again this week for us.

[kwagyeman]

Same

[RomanBredehoft]

Same here (although it's seems to be fine with Ubuntu 22.04.3)

[MakoWish]

Also seeing this on 22.04.2.

[Fastidious]

This is nightmarish. Having the same problem on all 20.04 machines we are building (using MAAS). So far the only reply I have gotten is: “It looks like you don't have an EFI partition in order to boot. Therefore, you do not need to worry about this error.” 🤯

[cipricus]

I have this after upgrade 22.04 > 23.10. No fix just yet.

[Jooosl]

I got this issue just now after updating Ubuntu 22LTS, I can't to anything anymore with apt(constantly getting the dependency and miss configuration error), putting the packages on hold also didn't help.
Thanks for any help in advance

[nukec]

same issue here on 22LTS. i am not sure its wise to run following, since i am accessing server via SSH:

sudo apt-get purge grub\*
sudo apt-get install grub-efi
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo update-grub

any suggestions?