shim-signed only half-configured following ubuntu upgrade to 16.04
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shim-signed (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
System was working fine, just upgraded to 16.04. There were errors during installation and apt now reports that shim-signed isn't properly installed with error
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
> sudo apt-get install shim-signed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
shim-signed is already the newest version (1.12+0.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up shim-signed (1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
shim-signed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
> apt-cache policy shim-signed
shim-signed:
Installed: 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1.12+0.8-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
I've checked a couple of existing shim-signed bugs; they seem to focus on the /boot/efi directory being missing, but I have one:
> du /boot/eft
4 /boot/efi/
72 /boot/efi/
76 /boot/efi/EFI
80 /boot/efi/
> df /boot
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb4 28704764 8583044 18640556 32% /
Also seeing this issue.
Windows 10 Dual-boot with Ubuntu LTS version.
Log: /var/dpkg.log
2016-12-19 10:53:03 startup packages configure 04.1+0. 8-0ubuntu2 <none>
2016-12-19 10:53:03 configure shim-signed:amd64 1.19~16.
2016-12-19 10:53:03 status half-configured shim-signed:amd64 1.19~16.04.1+0.8-
The software updater remains hung until I have to manually kill it.
This is a recent installation Ubuntu.