Ubiquity in Kubuntu gets killed by out-of-memory with 256 MB RAM
Bug #43071 reported by
Krzysztof Lichota
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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localechooser (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Colin Watson | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Kubuntu version: Dapper beta2
I have tried installing Kubuntu using Ubiquity on my laptop with 256 MB RAM. After choosing locale (Polish) and clicking "Next", system froze and required hard reboot.
I have tried this a few times with different CDs to exclude hardware error, finally I have switched to console during the process and it showed messages about killing processes due to out-of-memory.
This bug makes impossible installing Kubuntu on pretty much of laptops.
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Raising severity as it prohibits installation on any machine without Linux swap partition (i.e. majority of Windows users) and with less than about 300 MB of RAM.
Possible solutions:
1. Create swap file on Windows partition (currently not possible as NTFS module is compiled without write support) or normal swap partition upon startup if there is space on disk.
2. Use text-mode Ubiquity for such machines (I was told Guidalinex had it).