[Bug 1772008] Re: grub instalation crashed (2nd time)

[Wojciech Borkowski]

When I was trying to install something there was error at the end:
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sudo apt-get install r-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  r-base-html
Suggested packages:
  ess r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  r-base r-base-html
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 64,1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 623 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 r-base all 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 [9 312 B]
Get:2 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 r-base-html all 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 [54,8 kB]
Fetched 64,1 kB in 0s (788 kB/s)         
Selecting previously unselected package r-base.
(Reading database ... 157497 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../r-base_3.4.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking r-base (3.4.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package r-base-html.
Preparing to unpack .../r-base-html_3.4.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking r-base-html (3.4.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up shim-signed (1.34.9+13-0ubuntu2) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure):
 installed shim-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.93+2.02-2ubuntu8) ...
grub-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.
dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (--configure):
 installed grub-efi-amd64-signed package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up r-base-html (3.4.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up r-base (3.4.4-1ubuntu1) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 shim-signed
 grub-efi-amd64-signed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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Title:
  grub instalation crashed (2nd time)

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This disk is quite new, so I dont think that this is error #1059827
  The same happen previously, when I was trying to install grub on default location.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri May 18 13:45:08 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  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: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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