Ubuntu installer aborts when installing GRUB2 for EFI

[Dennis Schridde]

The Ubuntu installer aborts when installing GRUB2 for EFI. Guessing from syslog, the issue might either be that secureboot-db is not being installed (message at the end of the aborted installation), or probably that /boot/efi does not contain an /EFI directory (message earlier in the process).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.6 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Wed Jul 8 18:32:21 2015
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dennis Schridde (devurandom)]

In fact there is not even an /boot/efi directory...