grub2 installion failed fatal error installion crashes

Bug #1772996 reported by Abhinav Mishra
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

I tried reinstalling ubuntu while dual booting but the installion does not complete because of error while installing grub2 it says grub-install/dev/sda failed fatal error and after that the installation windowcrashes

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Thu May 24 00:33:57 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Abhinav Mishra (abmishra1) wrote :
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

It looks like your EFI system partition may be missing its "EFI" directory. Can you open it up and see what it has?

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for grub-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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