ubi-partman crashed with exit code 141 on 'Preparing to Install Ubuntu' screen

[James Hunt]

Latest precise desktop image gives this error when clicking "Continue" on 'Preparing to Install Ubuntu' screen.

Similar to bug 527848?
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Tags: precise ubiquity-2.10.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

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[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

This error was observed running the install through kvm with 512M of memory and 2 virtual disks (both partitioned with ext4 filesystems. Same problem observed allocating 1024M to the VM and a single disk.

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

This problem is triggered by running ubiquity in debug mode:

# fails
$ ubiquity gtk_ui --debug

# works
$ ubiquity gtk_ui

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/988811

[C. H. (moter8)]

Downloaded utopic-desktop-amd64.iso from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-plasma5/daily-live/current/ and tried to install it inside a VMware Workstation 10 VM. (2014-10-18)

I'm getting ubi-partman failed with exit code 141 when trying to install kubuntu.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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