As discussed, the system had gotten into a very strange state before the prior logs were attached. I booted the OS X installer disc, "erased" the drive, and re-ran debian-installer. I ran the manual partitioner to verify the format was similar to that I experienced in my first attempt to install, which it was (so the system should be restorable to this point repeatedly). I then tried to reformat the hfs+ parition for LVM, which failed. More logs attached.
** Attachment added: "/var/log/partman" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40913926/partman -- Guided Partitioning (full disk) did not work with native GPT disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs