Ubuntu 14.04 installation hangs with Pango WARNING

[Geoff Cooper]

Downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 Alpha Gnome Desktop iso from omgubuntu.

Tried installing on a Dell laptop and an Compaq Qube mini desktop. Doesn't even get to the screen where you choose Try or Install Ubuntu. It hangs at the message:
(process:186): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'

Both of these computers have had Ubuntu installed before. The Qube had 10.04 for several years, and I was most happy with it. I only decided to upgrade as it's no longer supported.

I wish I hadn't bothered as it's been nothing but trouble ever since. I liked 10.04, but Unity is horrible, I've tried 11, 12, 13 and now 14, and I'm now considering moving away from Ubuntu.

I've downgraded to 12.10, which is also no longer supported, but remains the most recent version that runs successfully.

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[Geoff Cooper (geoff-cooper)]

I tried posting this against the kernel but it won't let me, either too many matches or no items matched. The hardware I'm using is a Compaq Qube desktop 32 bit machine which has 1GB RAM, Intel Atom CPU D410 @ 1.66GHz x2 with a 1TB hard disk.

The graphics card is reported by lspci to be a VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller. My monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 933HD

This iso: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/alpha-1/ was downloaded from http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/ubuntu-14-04-alpha-1-released, and is called Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 Alpha 1.

If anyone here can work out which package to file this against, please feel free to do so.

Thanks.

Geoff

[John Kim (kotux)]

The package is linux.

[John Kim (kotux)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Can you see if this issue persists with the latest daily image:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

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