The "seen" flag of the unmount_active question is set to false which prevents preseeding the response. This breaks unattented installs. See LP: #1347726 Index: partman-base-172ubuntu1.1/init.d/parted =================================================================== --- partman-base-172ubuntu1.1.orig/init.d/parted 2015-07-17 12:00:37.000000000 -0400 +++ partman-base-172ubuntu1.1/init.d/parted 2015-10-22 08:29:56.613255350 -0400 @@ -236,7 +236,6 @@ done if [ "$disks_unmount" ]; then db_subst partman/unmount_active DISKS "$(echo "$disks_unmount" | sed 's/ /, /g')" - db_fset partman/unmount_active seen false db_input critical partman/unmount_active || true db_go || exit 10 db_get partman/unmount_active || RET=