installation for 16.04 LTS crashes when chooseing where to install.

Bug #1670172 reported by Toaster@Toast
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I was installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from a USB flash disk, everything was fine until I was at the stage of choosing where to install to because when I chose the partitioned part of my drive I wanted to install on the installation crashed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Sun Mar 5 18:13:44 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Toaster@Toast (bsdontoast) wrote :
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

At one point it appears that the installer created a partition to install Ubuntu to ( /dev/sda6 ) but then it vanished. Did you open another disk management utility and delete it?

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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