Snippet from my syslog: Dec 4 15:38:33 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: Ubiquity 2.13.3 Dec 4 15:38:34 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: log-output -t ubiquity laptop-detect Dec 4 15:38:34 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: log-output -t ubiquity laptop-detect Dec 4 15:38:37 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: switched to page language Dec 4 15:38:38 ubuntu localechooser: info: debian-installer/language preseeded to 'en' (seen: false) Dec 4 15:38:38 ubuntu localechooser: info: debian-installer/country preseeded to 'US' (seen: false) Dec 4 15:38:38 ubuntu localechooser: info: debian-installer/locale preseeded to 'en_US.UTF-8' (seen: false) Dec 4 15:38:38 ubuntu localechooser: info: Preseeded language ignored: unknown language code Dec 4 15:38:38 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: switched to page language Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Language = 'en' Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: line=en;0;US;UTF-8;en_US.UTF-8;;console-setup Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/language = 'en' Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Default country = 'US' Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Default locale = 'en_US.UTF-8' Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/consoledisplay = 'console-setup' Dec 4 15:38:45 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country = 'US' Dec 4 15:38:46 ubuntu localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale = 'en_US.UTF-8' Dec 4 15:38:46 ubuntu localechooser: info: System locale (debian-installer/locale) = 'en_US.UTF-8' Dec 4 15:38:53 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: debconffilter_done: ubi-language (current: ubi-language) Dec 4 15:38:53 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: Step_before = stepLanguage Dec 4 15:38:54 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: switched to page prepare Dec 4 15:39:03 ubuntu ubiquity: No drivers found for automatic installation. Dec 4 15:39:03 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: debconffilter_done: ubi-prepare (current: ubi-prepare) Dec 4 15:39:03 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: Step_before = stepPrepare Dec 4 15:39:03 ubuntu ubiquity[21690]: Step_before = stepPrepare Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu activate-dmraid: No Serial ATA RAID disks detected Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu partman: No matching physical volumes found Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu partman: No volume groups found Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu partman-lvm: Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu partman-lvm: No volume groups found Dec 4 15:39:04 ubuntu partman-lvm: Dec 4 15:39:06 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.F3t8j3goRS: not mounted Dec 4 15:39:07 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.6oHQ2mgMPc: not mounted Dec 4 15:39:07 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.hWjhpwkJYI: not mounted Dec 4 15:39:08 ubuntu ubiquity: umount: /tmp/tmp.p8kAzQ4KM2: not mounted Dec 4 15:40:07 ubuntu ubiquity: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44. Dec 4 15:40:07 ubuntu ubiquity: Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46. Dec 4 15:40:07 ubuntu ubiquity: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 47. Dec 4 15:40:07 ubuntu ubiquity: Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 48. Dec 4 15:40:07 ubuntu ubiquity: Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 49. Dec 4 15:40:07 ubuntu ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": mkdir :No such file or directory