I believe this was caused by the installer auto mounting the swap partition, which kept the disk busy. This was fixed several years ago since libparted no longer fails when an unrelated partition is in use.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Assignee: xenophed (xenophed) => Phillip Susi (psusi) ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Assignee: Phillip Susi (psusi) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323928 Title: installation using hard disk fails if using manual partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/323928/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs