The issue seems to be that you only ever need to write to the partition table if it is changed.
Other people with problems caused by the same bug: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9143667#post9143667 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9210368 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7769950#post7769950 Workaround: sudo umount -l -r -f /isodevice This should really be fixed and it is quite easy to do. -- Jaunty, Karmic: when booting from one partition and installing to another, installer fails to unmount '/cdrom' this halts installation. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313452 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs