This problem continues amazingly in Lbuntu 16.10, 16.04.2 and Ubuntu 16.10 I say "amazingly" advisedly, as this bug has been around since at least Ubuntu 12.04 in 2012/04/11. Consider renaming it Ubuntu based installers are cought in a loop at "Removing conflicting operating system files..."
The /home partition is the primary culprit, especially if doing an install where you want to keep the data in it, mainly to save the time needed for a restore, or possibly files missed in the backup. The details pane only shows about six lines of messages at a time and I was unable to copy and paste it to a file during the "Looping" install. I have about 54 photographs of selected parts of the data scrolling through the details pane. I can e-mail cropped copies or attempt to OCR them and provide an rtf file if anyone is working on this. There are two workarounds posted. http://askubuntu.com/questions/613660/stuck-on-removing-conflicting- operating-system-files-while-upgrading-from-14-0 and http://alexsleat.co.uk/2012/04/11/ubuntu-12-04-removing-conflicting- operating-system-files/comment-page-1/ both referring to this "common bug" by in the installer version of Gparted setting /home to "Do not use this partition" My Lubuntu install finished -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946663 Title: Installer stuck at "Removing conflicting operating system files..." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-target/+bug/946663/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
