installer crashed in between the process

[Varad Vivek Deshmukh]

it asked me for my location and then the installation process abruptly stopped

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun May 19 19:38:39 2019
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

The following errors can be found in UbiquitySyslog.txt which was automatically attached to this bug report:

May 19 14:08:29 ubuntu kernel: [ 278.049880] SQUASHFS error: zlib decompression failed, data probably corrupt
May 19 14:08:29 ubuntu kernel: [ 278.049884] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x269ed9f4

It's possible you have a bad write to your media. If you're still having problems please try the option to check the integrity of the image from the installer boot menu, and if this confirms that the media is corrupt, try re-writing and/or re-downloading it.