Bug#1059580: grub-efi: Grub installation failed

[Ludovic Kiefer]

Package: grub-efi
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs at lkiefer.org

Dear Maintainer,

At the end of the Debian installation, the installation of the Grub package
fails.

I first found this bug with the Debian 12.0 installer in september, but it is
still present in 12.4. My goal is to install a Debian with full disk
encryption, I just let the Debian Installer configure everything to use my
whole disk and create needed partitions. The installation performs well, but at
the end Grub is not installed. I got the message "Unable to install GRUB into
dummy". You can see in this capture the whole error messages:
https://pic.infini.fr/gallery#0aTFatc6/ALzRXAY9.png

I tried an installation without encryption and get the same error. I got this
error with Linux Mint too, but I managed to repair Grub after the installation
(only /home encryption). I did not manage to repair GRUB manually with Debian
and full disk encryption, and I didn't try without the encryption.

The PC is an Asus Expertbook B9400C. The BIOS is up to date (2023-12-12) and it
can only boot on EFI. The SSD is in GPT mode and all partitions were made using
the "automatic" mode. I used a USB drive made by the Linux Mint tool (which is
basically a GUI for dd).

Feel free to ask me more information. As I need this PC for the work, I will
reinstall Linux Mint if I didn't find a solution until the 2 of january (After
that date I will be unable to perform more tests and risk to lose my system)

PS: I write this report on another PC, the system information section is
written by Reportbug and is wrong


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers jammy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jammy-updates'), (500, 'jammy-security'), (500, 'jammy'), (100, 'jammy-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-91-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages grub-efi depends on:
ii  grub-common     2.06-2ubuntu7.2
pn  grub-efi-amd64  <none>

grub-efi recommends no packages.

grub-efi suggests no packages.
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