Ubiquity and lowish RAM machines

[Karl Anliot]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> If you provide clear specific steps to reproduce, and the issue really
> is readily reproducible, then lack of a stack trace should not be a
> problem, as far as I know.
>
> Jonathan

IMHO, Ubiquity could be causing failures (crashes during install)
mentioned in blogs like this:
http://jeremeguenther.blogspot.com/2012/05/lubuntu-on-old-compaq-machine.html
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/20636/lubuntu-vs-crunchbang-linux-differences/

testing in the 512 MB VM gave these results:
- when ubiquity was using 2 swap areas, there were never any crashes.
- when ubiquity was not given a place for a page file, crashes
occurred randomly at no particular time.
- but! when ubiquity was using a single swap partition, crashes always
occurred at a single point: during swapoff (right after finishing the
manual paritioning)

Jul 10 15:44:23 lubuntu ubiquity: /dev/sda5: swapoff failed
Jul 10 15:44:23 lubuntu ubiquity: :
Jul 10 15:44:23 lubuntu ubiquity: Cannot allocate memory

this bug is probably the most typical use case, Would someone please
try and confirm it?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1022995