Comment 8 for bug 1740026

This issue has timed out due to inactivity, but I have recently come across it while trying to install elementary OS 5.0 Juno, as well as KDE Neon and a few other Ubuntu-based distros that all use the ubiquity installer. The issue, I think, boils down to a call to parted_devices, which returns a list of the available devices and partitions. This can be seen in the UbiquitySyslog.txt attachment above, where the Hynix MMC device returns the device name "HBG4a" suffixed by the unicode character U+FFFD, ie the replacement character when it's unable to read the rest of the string. I believe this is the cause of the crash since it is a non-UTF8 character. Hopefully someone else has run into this and can confirm it.