Just an observation, I ran into the same problem.
I have multiple SATA drives, with Multiple partitions, including NTFS, EXT3 and Riser. I don't like doing upgrades so I elected to wipe the existing Ubuntu install. I ran into the same problem when trying the live installer. I used the Disk utility to mount the partition I wanted to install on which in my case was /dev/sda5. After I had the partition mounted I started the live install and of course it warned me that a partition was mounted and unmounted it. After that the install proceeded. That seems to have fixed it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757720 Title: ubi-partman crashes with exit code 141 during live install -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs