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elementary OS 8 install error: error installing packages

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Description

### What Happened?

I've had multiple failed attempts trying to install `elementaryos-8.0-stable.20241122rc.iso` on a laptop that previously had an (encrypted) elementary OS 7 installation.

I can run Demo mode, but every combination that I have tried has failed: encrypt/don't encrypt, install / don't install drivers, and erase and install / custom setup (advanced mode).
This _feels_ related to both #520 and #584 but it's not exactly what is described there. (or at least, it's not _only_ what's described there - I initially had errors regarding an LV group that already existed, so I removed all partitions, groups etc and tried again with an empty unpartitioned hard drive)

What is consistent is that each time I have got:

**Could Not Install**
Installing elementary OS 8 failed, possibly due to a hardware error.

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Confirm hash of downloaded iso
2. Create bootable USB drive using Etcher
4. Boot device from the USB drive
5. Choose to try or install elementary 0S
6. Set up language & keyboard, connect to Wi-Fi
7. Attempt to install using 'Erase Disk and Install' option
8. Choose to encrypt disk using LVM (it doesn't work without encryption either though)
9. Choose to install drivers (doesn't work without this checked either)
10. Open the terminal display, the file extraction process begins, and gets to 100%.
11. Next up some kind of 'configuring system' command starts running
12. **Could Not Install** screen appears. When I click on Details, I see:
```
ERROR: configuring chroot error: error installing packages: command failed with exit status: 100
ERROR: errored while installing system: error installing packages: command failed with exit status:
exit status: 100
INFO: Install error: error installing packages: command failed with exit status: exit status: 100
```

### Expected Behavior

Installation completes without error

### OS Version

8.x (Circe)

### Session Type

Classic Session (X11, This is the default)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

```shell

```

### Hardware Info

Lenovo Carbon X1 Carbon
12th Gen Intel Core i7-1260P
Intel Aider Lake-P GT2 (Iris Xe)
32GB RAM, 1TB storage

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