bizzarely I can't make this happen with a differnet machine running the ubuntu (rather than xubuntu) live cd. Also when I tried before the hard drive I was using had no existing partitions so I'll try that as well and post results if I can make it happen again.
Very strange because it did it consistently over a couple of tries I eventually partitioned using Part ed magic Live cd. -- ubiquity partition editor crahes when trying to edit a partition some partition types defined incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140069 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs