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I was upgrading Ubuntu using 

sudo apt-get upgrade -y

But, the terminal crashed in between. When I tried to run the same command again, it gave an error related to lock on dpkg. I deleted the lock files. Now when I run the command, I get the following error

1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up shim-signed (1.33.1~16.04.3+15+1533136590.3beb971-0ubuntu1) ...
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)

I am not sure what is wrong here.

Rui F Ribeiro
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Ashwani K
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  • Of course, recognizing the error message in that output would have led to existing Q&As on the subject, including https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/320014/ , https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405472/ , https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/369748/ , https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265556/ , and https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/311588/ . – JdeBP Jan 30 '19 at 06:23

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First confirm whether or not you are running an EFI boot version of Ubuntu.

If you are not then:

  • This will never work right, because shim-signed is a EFI application.

If you are then:

  • Make sure your EFI boot directory/partition is properly referenced.

  • Then purge shim-signed, apt-get purge shim-signed then I would attempt the update and upgrade or reinstall of shim-signed, after a reboot.

You could also try something similar to the following: (change to suit your situation)

  • Be vary sure you know what these commands do and where you want them to place things as doing it wrong will most likely render your system non-bootable.

    mkdir /boot/efi
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi /dev/sdX (path to drive where grub is installed).
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Michael Prokopec
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  • Thanks, but how to know if it EFI boot version. This used to work earlier. Only after the terminal crash during the upgrade, it gives this error. – Ashwani K Jan 30 '19 at 06:09
  • How to `Make sure your EFI boot directory/partition is properly referenced`? – Ashwani K Jan 30 '19 at 06:09
  • Check your fstab and see if you have a boot/efi entry if so good, if not do the following: Check to make sure the directory actually exists on the system ( /boot/efi ) if so good. If your system has both in place other things are amiss. If you have neither then look into why? Also check the permissions of the directory. – Michael Prokopec Jan 30 '19 at 06:27