error: can't find command 'hwmatch' during boot

Baldi Giovanni

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Hello to Every


I need an help to understand how to properly solve an issue happened un an Ubuntu 18.04.

Basically once Ubuntu frezeed and the user was forced to run a Hard Reboot, ubuntu started wit the following error


Code:
error: can't find command 'hwmatch'
then clicking on the keyboard it asked for a username and password that i don't know.

Trying to understand the configuration i discovered that

Ubuntu it was installed in efi mode and some security enforcement was done

i found on the /etc/grub.d/40_custom the following line
Bash:
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
set superusers="cmpadmn"
password_pbkdf2 cmpadmin grub.pbkdf2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

That i suppose is the grub password. For the moment I have fixed the problems commenting out the two line on the 40_custom file and running upgrade-grub but i would like to fix in a proper way re-enabling the security feature applied.

Can someone tell me which is the relation between the hwmatch.mod and the grub password and how i can try to properly fix?

What i have notice is that in some ubuntu this module is



/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/hwmatch.mod
and

/boot/grub/i386-pc/hwmatch.mod

in others it is just in

/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/hwmatch.mod like the one that has problem

It is not clear for me, can someone has some experience about this issue?


Thanks in advance
 


hwmatch - This module is where the Blacklist and Whitelist for hardware are stored.
One is for the Grub the other for the system these need to match
You can boot a live usb system and run from that
Code:
sudo fsck /dev/sda1
this should let you know if there are differences
The first step is to confirm that the file hwmatch is really missing. If so the easiest method is to simply copy it from:
Code:
/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/hwmatch.mod
into the directory:
Code:
/boot/efi/efi/grub
Then reboot
Generally for some unknown reason it did not install properly or is incomplete this is usually during an upgrade you can try
Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64
 


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