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The Ubiquity installer crashes a few seconds after the partition stage.

Fares K. A.
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    Have you tried tailing syslog? Do you receive any errors? Please [edit] your post to provide further information. Thank you for helping us help you! – Elder Geek May 25 '18 at 17:29

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If you have this problem, then you are experiencing Bug #1751252. I know the issue is meant to happen on XPS 9560 and the errors aren't the same but I fixed it using the same patch.

Before you begin, make sure you do all the partitioning BEFORE opening the installer.

Then I used the patch from the answer below, copied from this question.

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...there is a patch you can use as a workaround...

  1. Boot your 18.04 Live ISO
  2. Select Try Ubuntu
  3. Before you start the Ubiquity installer, open a Terminal window (CTRL-ALT-T)

  4. Execute the following commands in the Terminal to download and apply the patch

    cd ~/Downloads

wget https://code.launchpad.net/~azzar1/ubiquity/+git/ubiquity/+merge/345056/+preview-diff/831305/+files/preview.diff --output-document ubiquity.patch

sudo cp /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/misc.py /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/misc.py.original

sudo patch /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/misc.py ubiquity.patch

  5. Start the installer by clicking on the Ubiquity icon, and it should now allow you to proceed through the installation

Fares K. A.
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Make sure fast-boot is disabled in Bios.

On power on press the appropriate key for your motherboard to get into Bios. Check your motherboard / system vendors website or google for the key for Bios if you do not already know it.

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