[Bug 1652090] Re: Installer crashed installing on Aspire ES15 ES1-533-P7T9

[Dr. Jens Harbott]

I don't agree that this is a duplicate of 1639374, it also affects plain
Ubuntu distro, tested with both 16.04.3 and 17.10. The workaround on
askubuntu.com mentioned above worked for me, but for new users it would
be really good if there was a way to make this work out of the box.

Current user experience is a machine lockup after spending significant
time going through the installation process, which might cause lots of
folks responding "dump that linux, I'll stick with windows".

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1639374
   grub-pc fails to remove, rendering lubuntu uninstallable on EFI machines

** Summary changed:

- Installer crashed installing on Aspire ES15 ES1-533-P7T9
+ System freeze while installing on Aspire ES15 ES1-533-P7T9

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Title:
  System freeze while installing on Aspire ES15 ES1-533-P7T9

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Happened while installing on new Windows machine to create dual-boot.
  Chose to install alongside Windows and reduced Windows partition size to make new Ubuntu partition.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubiquity 16.10.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.379
  Date: Thu Dec 22 15:04:21 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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