[Bug 1743379] Re: Installation failed late because of UEFI partition was not created during manual disk set up

[Phillip Susi]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1783996 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783996

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1704510
   Partman should warn about not having an EFI system partition
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1783996
   [efi on top of legacy] Show a warning that installation will fail if user doesn't create an ESP partition or fallback to grub-pc

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Title:
  Installation failed late because of UEFI partition was not created
  during manual disk set up

Status in partman-efi package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Fresh installation of Ubuntu 17.10.1. Apparently this new motherboard
  is configured in UEFI mode. Because wanting total control of the
  partitioning schema used, I chose manual partitioning in the beginning
  of the installation. When installing "grub-uefi-something-whatever-64"
  (cannot now verify the exact name of the package, because I cannot
  find how to start terminal application in this aborted installation),
  it failed due to missing UEFI system partition. When I acknowledged
  the failure there was also this crash.

  So I see two issues here:

  1. abrupt crash of the installer
  2. not warning of the missing UEFI partition before accepting the manually created partition table (in an earlier installation attempt there was a warning about swap not being encrypted and subsequent refusal to continue the installation, meaning there seems to be some other checks of similar nature in place).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: ubiquity 17.10.10 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.387
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Jan 15 21:03:40 2018
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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