Installer crashed at "Installing the 'grub2' package".

[Garry Pavento]

I was directed here automatically while attempting to install Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop, amd64, from a DVD in a SATA drive with a SATA to USB connection. The installation is to a SATA drive.

Cleared SATA drive before installing.

   fdisk -l /dev/sda reports 488397168 sectors
   dd count=100000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
   dd count=100000 seek=488297168 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

UEFI install.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: ubiquity 17.04.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.380
Date: Mon Jul 17 13:07:24 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcEnviron:
 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)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It looks like dpkg somehow messed up the info file during the install:

grub-installer: field name 'VersionZ' must be followed by colon

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is now dead
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-17-04-zesty-zapus-has-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-17-10-now-519360.shtml