ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()

[jimbowland]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

have tried 8.10 install on a partition both with and without GRUB from advanced options in Ubiquity.
Last message from Ubiquity in Messages log says:

Nov 6 09:37:40 ubuntu ubiquity: return: 74:
Nov 6 09:37:40 ubuntu ubiquity: Illegal number: #UUID=7469492c-be4e-4da3-85ac-1f85e7b8a79e

Ubiquity and just finished copying documents and settings before crash
Screen blanks and returns to live CD output.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: ubiquity 1.10.10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_ma()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
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