[Bug 874642] Re: Manual disk-partitioner crashes during Kubuntu 11.10 installation

[markusl]

Thanks for that Google fodder, Dave: you beat me to it.  :-)

The workaround for this bug is to download and install Ubuntu (rather
than Kubuntu), partitioning your disk(s) as you wish, but allowing a few
GiB more in your root partition than you'd normally need.  I gave it
15GiB, which was more than enough.  Once the installer has finished,
boot up your new Ubuntu installation, log into Unity, and install KDE
using any of the usual methods of installing software.  You can then log
out of Unity and into KDE.

I found when I did this that the system started leaking memory like a
sieve -- tens of KiB per second -- but rebooting my 11.10 VM promptly,
while it was still responsive, solved that.  Oddly, I couldn't find an
obvious culprit in top(1), but I didn't spend long looking.  Early
indications are that my new KDE installation is now stable.

People short of disk space can presumably uninstall Unity and parts of
Gnome once KDE is running well, but I quite like having Unity available
in case I do something stupid to KDE and need to recover it.  (A well-
configured jEdit beats vi any day.)

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Title:
  Manual disk-partitioner crashes during Kubuntu 11.10 installation

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm running in VMWare with four virtual disks.  I had configured two
  partition tables and full-sized partitions without problems.  I set up
  a swap partition, but as soon as the partman returned to the list of
  disks, it crashed.

  The problem is repeatable two times out of two, and in the same place.
  This unfortunately means that Kubuntu is not installable on my PC.
  I'll download another flavour of Ubuntu and see whether it has the
  same problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Fri Oct 14 21:34:11 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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