I'm installing Kubuntu 13.04 on an HP ENVY h8 system with UEFI and an existing Windows 8 partition.
When attempting to install, before being able to see the partitioning choices, I receive a "ubi-partman failed with exit code 141.
Is ubi-partman not able to handle GPT partition tables?
Similar failure attempts:
* Booting in UEFI mode from DVD with the original drive attached and no other. Drive partitioned straight from mfg.
* Booting in Legacy mode from DVD with the original drive attached and no other. Drive partitioned straight from mfg.
* Booting in UEFI mode from DVD with the original drive attached and no other. NTFS drive resized with ntfsresize and gparted
* Booting in Legacy mode from DVD with the original drive attached and no other. NTFS drive resized with ntfsresize and gparted and an ext3/4 partition created all ready to go...
Successes:
* If I have a USB Thumbdrive inserted, that shows up as a target (the main drive does not show up in partman)
* If I installed a second drive without Windows (I disconnected the old drive first, but perhaps did not need to)
These efforts both completed a successful and usable installation.
It seems that ubi-partman cannot handle GUID Partition Tables (GPT) or Windows 8 installations. Booting in legacy mode doesn't seem to make a difference. If the drive has Windows 8/UEFI/GPT on it, ubi-partman does not know what to do with it.
I will include some logs from one of the failed efforts.
This could be a duplicate of 354515 and/or 1179086 (or others) but because the information is inconclusive and many of the apparent matches have been resolved.
I did disable the FastBoot mode (per the UEFI wiki page).
The drive with the Windows 8 setup is seen in the udev log as:
/dev/
A 1.5gb SATA drive