[Bug 186147] Re: ubiquity "failed to remove conflicting files"

[Alistair Chapman]

I can confirm that this is still happening on 11.04 being installed from
a USB Disk, when trying to install as an upgrade to my existing (11.04)
installation. After trying to shut down the computer (eventually
requiring a hard-off) the upgrade option had disappeared, so installing
as a clean install, formatting the existing install instead, eventually
worked.

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Title:
  ubiquity "failed to remove conflicting files"

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  i attempted to install ubuntu using the amd64 hardy 20080126 live cd.

  my system has 2 sata disks. i asked the partition to format one of the
  existing partitions (sda9) as ext3 and use it as '/'

  at the installing phase, the install window is says
  "Creating ext3 file system for / in partition #9 of SCSI1 (0,0,0)"

  then a message pops up
  "Failed to remove conflicting files"
  "The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue"
  pressing ok takes me back to the partitioner

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