Mint 18.3 KDE installation failure: ubi-partman error code 141

[iakash149]

Dear Friends,
Novice here. I am trying to install Mint 18.3 KDE as a dual boot on my Lenovo Legion Y520 which currently runs Windows 10. My friend downloaded the ISO and wrote it to the Live USB. I am not sure what program he used to create the Live USB - but after booting my laptop from the USB, I was able to start Mint 18.3. Then I noticed problem 1: wifi not working. rfkill list all showed that the wifi is hardblocked. The wifi works fine in Windows and the laptop does not have a physical switch for wifi. So I am stumped. But then I found that Lenovo forums has a suggestion: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yog ... 433#M15312 - so I decided to install Mint 18.3 using an ethernet connection and then deal with the wifi issue. Then I ran into problem 2: I get a ubi-partman failure code 141. Now I am very confused. Any suggestions welcome.
Thank you,
AB

[Mattyboy]

Bit outdated https://askubuntu.com/questions/277925/ ... t-code-141

re-installing after re-formatting the partition may help ( Mint is based on ubuntu )

From the bug description, looks like, problem is, when Ubuntu is installed on system, where are 2 OS and one of them is Ubuntu. Workaround could be to remove the old Ubuntu partition before you install a new one.

As to the wireless completely update your system after installing including the kernel. Ethernet. Then go from there.

[iakash149]

If I understand you correctly, then this problem arises if there is already a Ubuntu installation and I am trying to install one more version of Ubuntu/Mint. Is that correct? But in my case, that is not so. That is why I am confused.
I checked the System Info from Windows and it seems like the BIOS mode is UEFI. Is this a problem? Any sugggestions how to get around it?
Thanks!

[mohammedtaherpatla]

I have the same problem on my dell xps 15 9550.
I used rufus to burn my to my usb. I used the GPT partition and standard iso format.

My wifi i am not too sure, it seemed it connected when i manually connected it but through the installer when i put in password it breaks.

I ran into same error as it cant find any other partitions. And it would install on usb if i just ignored and went ahead.

I am using UEIF mode , and not the old one because linux works with UEIF now.

Is there something else i am missing.

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May 24 22:29:08 mint ubiquity: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 54.
May 24 22:29:08 mint ubiquity: debconf: DbDriver "targetdb": could not open
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May 24 22:29:14 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx$
May 24 22:29:14 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x$
May 24 22:29:14 mint ubiquity[6616]: Ubiquity 2.21.63+linuxmint8
May 24 22:29:15 mint ubiquity[6616]: switched to page language
May 24 22:29:16 mint localechooser: info: debian-installer/language preseeded to 'en' (seen: false)
May 24 22:29:16 mint localechooser: info: debian-installer/country preseeded to 'US' (seen: false)
May 24 22:29:16 mint localechooser: info: debian-installer/locale preseeded to 'en_US.UTF-8' (seen: false)
May 24 22:29:16 mint ubiquity[6616]: switched to page language
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Language = 'en'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: line=en;0;US;en_US.UTF-8;;console-setup
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/language = 'en'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Default country = 'US'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Default locale = 'en_US.UTF-8'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/consoledisplay = 'console-setup'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country = 'US'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale = 'en_US.UTF-8'
May 24 22:29:18 mint localechooser: info: System locale (debian-installer/locale) = 'en_US.UTF-8'
May 24 22:29:19 mint ubiquity[6616]: debconffilter_done: ubi-language (current: ubi-language)
May 24 22:29:19 mint ubiquity[6616]: Step_before = language
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May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x$
May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x$
May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d1$
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May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x$
May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d1$
May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx$
May 24 22:29:21 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x$
May 24 22:29:25 mint ubiquity[6616]: debconffilter_done: ubi-prepare (current: ubi-prepare)
May 24 22:29:25 mint ubiquity[6616]: Step_before = Form
May 24 22:29:25 mint activate-dmraid: No Serial ATA RAID disks detected
May 24 22:29:25 mint partman: No matching physical volumes found
May 24 22:29:25 mint partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
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May 24 22:29:25 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x$
May 24 22:29:25 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d1$
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May 24 22:29:26 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x$
May 24 22:29:26 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x$
May 24 22:29:26 mint systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx$
May 24 22:29:26 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x5cx2018.3\x5cx20KDE\x5cx2064\x2dbit.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-Linux\x5cx20Mint\x$
May 24 22:29:26 mint systemd[1704]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d11\x2d00.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2duuid-2017\x2d11\x2d27\x2d10\x2d50\x2d1$
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May 24 22:29:26 mint ubiquity[6616]: debconffilter_done: ubi-partman (current: ubi-partman)
May 24 22:29:26 mint ubiquity[6616]: dbfilter_handle_status: ('ubi-partman', 141)
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