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I'm on 15.04 and latest upgrade shows grub-efi-amd64-signed as "to be removed" (along with upgrading grub-common, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-amd64-bin and grub2-common)

I'm using EFI secure boot, so I think removing grub-efi-amd64-signed might brake my system.

Does anyone have an advice on that ?

alci
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I did the update yesterday on 14.04, and 15.04, and it went OK. What I think it does, it removes an older version, and installs a newer one. Both systems have been rebooted, and they both work fine.

Mitch
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  • I went on, ant it works. But there is one chnage: it used to display "booting in insecure mode", and it does not anymore... any idea why? – alci Jun 30 '15 at 09:30
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    Take a look here. There was a problem, and its now fixed. – Mitch Jun 30 '15 at 09:32
  • If you see a booting in insecure mode message, then you are not booting with Secure Boot active. I suggest you re-examine your firmware settings. – Rod Smith Jul 01 '15 at 13:23
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This is a a kown issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/+bug/1469995

Afaik it seems related to a dependency problem as updating "grub-efi-amd64" package suggest to remove "grub-efi-amd64-signed" as the last one depends on previous version of the first one.

You should not update now and wait one or two weeks and see if the issue is fixed.

John Doe
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  • Temporary workaround to allow upgrading other packages until this bug is fixed: sudo apt-mark hold grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-common grub2-common. And run sudo apt-mark unhold grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-common grub2-common after the bug has been fixed. – snap Jul 08 '15 at 15:45