[Bug 931436] [NEW] Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data

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My ununtu desktop failed to boot one day, saying "no init found". I could not get past this, including going back to previous configurations.
So I downloaded the latest version, burned a CD and tried to install that.
Booting from the CD is OK, but I can't get my old user data. The old /home/ is extracted under some ecryptfs scheme, with instructions to run "ecryptfs-mount-private", which crashes with the message "private directory is not set up correctly".

Tried to install from the CD (before & after reboot - same result) - use
the option to upgrade and keep the old user account, but the install
fails with partition manager failed with 141 - goodbye.

What does 141 mean? Is there any way I can recover that data?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Mon Feb 13 13:34:11 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric ubiquity-2.8.7
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Install / upgrade failed, & I can't rescue my user data
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/931436
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