[00:45] <stgraber> cjwatson: so the question I had is about the signed grub2 on UEFI and how it finds its config. I reinstalled my laptop using raring with just an EFI partition and a LVM partition. My / is on a LV which led to grub giving me a recovery shell on first boot.
[00:46] <stgraber> I vaguely remember seeing a minimal grub.cfg in /boot/efi in the past that'd point grub towards the real config file but can't find it on that clean install
[00:47] <stgraber> so I just want to check whether we've got a bug there or if it's not a supported setup, whether it's possible to dump a grub config on the EFI partition to have it source the config from the LVM (instead of me doing this at every boot ;))
[21:17] <dank> Ran into bug 1080701 on 2 out of 3 machines, repeatably
[21:17] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 1080701 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Raring) "After 'Preparing to install Ubuntu' screen, raring installation hangs" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1080701
[21:57] <dank> Mounting a partition manually works around the problem for me.   I'd be happy to do test runs for any developer interested.
[22:03] <cjwatson> If you'll be around tomorrow we may well want to have a look
[22:03] <cjwatson> Although possibly in UK working hours so hopefully there's some intersection
[22:06] <cjwatson> The ideal thing for us to have would be a way to reproduce it in a virtual machine, so that one of us can look at it directly, repeatedly reset the state, that kind of thing
[22:06] <cjwatson> But I appreciate that may not be exactly trivial
[22:24] <dank> Think it'd be reproducible in the live cd by just running partman with the right commandline?
[22:36] <dank> alas, just running partman doesn't seem to reproduce the problem; it uses the console UI, and gets to the partitioning screen ok.   Hmm.
[22:39] <dank> I could be available tomorrow morning to run tests, I'm in California, can test  starting about 7am (3pm London time)