This particular grub failure occurred because grub tries systemd-detect-
virt --quiet --container to see if it has to skip grub-install.
I'm fixing this in systemd to detect wsl as a container.
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Balint Reczey (rbalint)
** Package changed: grub2 (Ubuntu) => systemd (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Balint Reczey (rbalint) => (unassigned)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1816753
Title:
do-release-upgrade on WSL failed horribly due to grub and others
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Upon reading an Ubuntu page that said it was possible to upgrade my
Ubuntu-under-Windows 10 install (WSL) from 16.04 LTS just by running
do-release-upgrade, I excitedly went to my terminal and ran the
command.
First it refused to run because system was not fully updated. Fine, I ran:
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
This process completed without any errors. I then ran do-release-
upgrade again. This time it started okay and got through most of the
process.
But then at some point it decided to run grub even though I am running
Ubuntu under WSL, so presumably grub should not be used. It did
apparently detect that it wasn't needed, because it asked me if I was
sure I didn't want to install it on the boot device. I answered yes.
Then the install proceeded to LXD but soon after came an error related
to grub.
After that it went downhill fast with at least 2 other errors.
Additionally, when the system attempted to roll back the upgrade I got
an error from a kernel package.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.38ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Microsoft 4.4.0-17763.253-Microsoft 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 19 23:50:44 2019
Dmesg: [ 0.017808] Microsoft 4.4.0-17763.253-Microsoft 4.4.35
ErrorMessage: installed friendly-recovery package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 1
PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.7, python3-minimal,
3.6.7-1~18.04
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal,
2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
apt 1.6.8
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package friendly-recovery 0.2.38ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
installed friendly-recovery package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-02-20 (0 days ago)
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