It doesn't look to me as though this has anything to do with reiserfs.
The core problem is:
Oct 7 06:37:14 ubuntu user-setup: adduser: The UID 0 is already in use.
Oct 7 06:37:14 ubuntu ubiquity: chpasswd: (user james) pam_chauthtok() failed,
error:
Oct 7 06:37:14 ubuntu ubiquity: Authentication token manipulation error
Oct 7 06:37:14 ubuntu ubiquity: chpasswd: (line 1, user james) password not
changed
I'm not sure I understand what's going on here though, as it doesn't
look as though you're reusing an existing filesystem for /, only /home.
Could you please give a summary of your partitioning before and after
this installation attempt?
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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ubiquity crashes while attempting to create user
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445199
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