virtual box 4.3.12, host machine=Mac OSX 10.9.3, core i7, 8G
just a plain virgin install on empty disk, LVM enabled, download from net=yes, 20G disk (backed by *.hdd file: parallels disk file), TZ=Amsterdam, keyboard=ENG.
installer runs a while then a dialog tells me the installer crashed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Thu Jun 26 22:35:04 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
tested several different setups... eventually got it to work with *.vdi backed disk i.s.o. *.hdd backed disk.
I am concluding that the *.hdd integration of Virtual Box is bogus. (I also got some messages on other install trials that the disk had errors and that it was probably old or should be moved to a cooler environment, lol).
So this is NOT an ubuntu bug, will mark it as such.
Will leave this bug here for other users experiencing the same.