Ubuntu 9.10 hangs during installation due to ubiquity?

[Alexandru Botezatu]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I suspect this is due to ubiquity, however I cannot be sure.

System:
  Celeron-500
  412Mb RAM
Kernel version: 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu

Symptoms: installation progress reaches 43-58% (randomly), after which installation hangs indefinitely. Top reports ever-increasing load average (up to >10), rendering the sytem unresponsive.

Kernel logs display "events/0: page allocation failure. order:4, mode: 0x40d0", multiple times

top says when sorted by memory:
  Virt: 155m RSS: 47m ubiquity
  Virt: 43192 RSS: 20m install.py

Mem: 412312k total, 406804k used, 5508k free, 38748 buffers
Swap: 1307094k total, 63596k used, 1244308k free, 227556k cached

There is no HDD or CD-ROM activity. Commands like su or free hang.

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't start working on it yet, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs as separate attachments by visiting your bug's web page. Thanks in advance.

[Alexandru Botezatu (botik32)]

Please mark it as invalid. It was due to an overheating CPU (bad fan).

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

Thank You for your answer. I´ve closed this bug.

Thank You for making Ubuntu better.