I suffered this problem when shifting from 12.04 to a clean install of 13.04 with twin hard disks and a dual-boot to Windows. The 'Disk Setup' stage refused to recognise existing partitions or free space. Partman usually exited with error code 141 but sometimes crashed. I lost three days days of my life and became intimately acquainted with testdisk.
Eventually I tracked the fault to the existence of dmraid metadata on the two hard drives. It was not shown up by testdisk but was listed by dmraid. Using **dmraid -rE** to erase the unnecessary metadata meant that the ubiquity install routine functioned normally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to ubiquity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080701 Title: After 'Preparing to install Ubuntu' screen, raring installation hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto/+bug/1080701/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
