Not sure whether this is the same bug.

Environment: 6.10 installation, trying to upgrade to 8.04 (preserving
/home, discarding everything else).

I told the installer to format all partitions except /home, thinking it
would realize I was trying to do a clean install, not an upgrade.  No
luck.  The "Ready to Install" page had the following error message:

10 migration-assistant/sda9/users doesn't exist: 10 migration-
assistant/sda9/10+migration-assistant/sda9/users+doesn't+exist/items
doesn't exist

And then after the install "finished" and I was presented with a
desktop, it turned out that none of my partitioning instructions had
been followed -- the non-/home partitions were mounted on /target,
/target/tmp, etc., rather than /, /tmp, etc., and /home was mounted on
/mnt/migrationassistant.

I tried following the "Clean Install Upgrade" instructions on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/UpgradeFromOldVersion ,
but that didn't work either -- the same thing happened.

FWIW, I have been trying to upgrade my 6.10 installation for over a year
-- to 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04.  Every time, the installer (ubiquity) has
been broken in a different, show-stopping way. And since 6.10 is no
longer supported and I can't get updates for it or even load new
packages into it, it looks like I'm going to have to go out and buy a
new hard drive to do a from-scratch install of 8.04, and then copy the
/home partition.

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InstallStepError: MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148023
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