System program problem detected when installing ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[digitalknight]

Never came across this issue in the past. Seems to get most of the way thru the install before that error pops up. I read other have had this issue also and had to use a legacy install file?

[euol]

Check if the Ubuntu ISO file you downloaded is not corrupted. You can verify the checksum (MD5/SHA256) of the ISO file against the official values provided on the Ubuntu download page.

Otherwise it would be useful to have more information from logs which can be found in /var/log

[digitalknight]

Thank you for the reply. The checksum does match:fa81fae9cc21e2b1e3a9a4526c7dad3131b668e346c580702235 ad4d02645d9455 Not sure how to post or attach log files here?e9 adf af a

[currentshaft]

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[tea for one]

Never came across this issue in the past. Seems to get most of the way thru the install before that error pops up. I read other have had this issue also and had to use a legacy install file?

Which utility did you use to prepare the USB?

I use one or other of the following and rarely is there any difficulty:-
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html
Startup Disk Creator (included in Ubuntu iso)

[digitalknight]

Which utility did you use to prepare the USB?

I use one or other of the following and rarely is there any difficulty:-
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html
Startup Disk Creator (included in Ubuntu iso)

balenaEtcher

[digitalknight]

Main error I am seeing on the log is: Unexpected error while running command. Command: unshare --fork --pid mount-proc=/target/proc chroot /target grub-install dev/sda Exit code: 1

Also I see: grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..

Then a: Stderr: ""

last line is "curtin command install"

[tea for one]

Main error I am seeing on the log is: Unexpected error while running command. Command: unshare --fork --pid mount-proc=/target/proc chroot /target grub-install dev/sda Exit code: 1
Also I see: grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
Then a: Stderr: ""
last line is "curtin command install"

A BIOS Boot partition is required when you install in old-fashioned Legacy mode.
Your target PC, is it not UEFI compatible?

[digitalknight]

Yes it is. Lenovo T520

Let me mess around a bit in the BIOS and see if I can get it to install.

[digitalknight]

Good to go! I loaded in the default BIOS setting and then checked everything. I noticed that UEFI/Legacy was set to both, I then checked the order and it was set to Legacy first so I set that to UEFI first and restarted and everything installed correctly this time around.

Thanks for everyone's help here.