I hit this as well, while upgrading from kubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. Here's as much debugging as I'm knowledgable to do, captured before I cross my fingers and reboot anyway...
from term.log: ... Setting up grub-common (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ... Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ... Setting up grub2-common (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ... dpkg: error processing grub-efi-amd64 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-efi: grub-efi depends on grub-efi-amd64 (= 2.00-19ubuntu2.1); however: Package grub-efi-amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing grub-efi (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured ... Errors were encountered while processing: grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi dpkg --configure -D13 grub-efi-amd64: Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ... D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.postinst ( configure 2.00-13ubuntu3 ) dpkg: error processing grub-efi-amd64 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: grub-efi-amd64 puetzk@Peregrine:/var/log/dist-upgrade$ bash -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.postinst configure 2.00-13ubuntu3 || echo fail: + set -e + cached_available_ids= + case "$1" in + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' '' ']' ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.postinst configure 2.00-13ubuntu3 fail So it's somehow debconf-related. I did a apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64, dpkg --purge grub-efi-amd64, apt-get install grub-efi to try and clear things; failure stayed the same, though there's no longer a previous version. export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.postinst configure || echo fail debconf (developer): frontend started debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is grub-efi-amd64 debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.config configure debconf (developer): <-- SET grub2/linux_cmdline debconf (developer): --> 0 value set debconf (developer): <-- SET grub2/linux_cmdline_default quiet splash debconf (developer): --> 0 value set debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium grub2/linux_cmdline debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium grub2/linux_cmdline_default debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped debconf (developer): <-- GO debconf (developer): --> 0 ok debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-efi-amd64.postinst configure debconf (developer): <-- GET grub2/linux_cmdline debconf (developer): --> 0 debconf (developer): <-- GET grub2/linux_cmdline_default debconf (developer): --> 0 quiet splash debconf (developer): <-- X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE /var/lib/dpkg/info/ucf.templates ucf debconf (developer): --> 0 fail So that seems to be a dead-end. Some tracing with echo statements added to the script narrowed it down to line 689 (the call to grub-install). grub-install --debug prints lots of stuff, but points the failure at the command: efibootmgr -q -c -d /dev/sdb -p 1 -w -L kubuntu -l \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi All of those arguments look right - my EFI boot partition is indeed on sdb (an mSATA SSD, sda is the traditional hard drive), this is mounted at /boot/efi, so that path is right and the file exists. dmesg shows: efivars: set_variable() failed: status=8000000000000009 So I think I'm now as deep as I can get; it's a kernel/BIOS issue of some kind. This is a Lenovo ThinkPad W520 dmidecode -s bios-version: 8BET60WW uname -a: Linux Peregrine 3.8.0-27-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 9 00:17:05 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm now going to see if I can somehow or other get booted into the new kernel (3.8.0-34) that came with 13.10, and hope it fixes this... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249819 Title: couldn't install '' grub-efi-amd64" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1249819/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
