install failed after giving up on reinstalling packages

[James Jones]

I was using the Kubuntu 17.10 from a couple of days ago to install, written to a USB flash drive, to install 17.10 on my desktop (an attempt at upgrade failed--I was doing other things while the upgrade (from the command line) was preparing packages for installation, and when I returned, I just saw the glowing kubuntu graphic boot display, sitting there and making no progress, so I decided to try a plain install). It spent a long time trying to restore (or perhaps update is the better word?) packages that it saw already installed, and then a pop-up appeared, saying that it couldn't complete that part, and I could just reinstall packages manually after the install completed. I clicked to close that window, and just after that it came up saying the install failed, so I should submit an error report on ubiquity, which I am doing now.

/var/log/installer/syslog doesn't exist; attaching /var/log/partman.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubiquity 17.10.10 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.386
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Oct 18 17:16:53 2017
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171015)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.