natty failed to install - system ran out of memory during installation

[kevin kelly]

a message came up saying to send syslog in a report

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1547, in <module>
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 159, in run
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_plugins()
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 389, in configure_plugins
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.db.progress('INFO', 'ubiquity/install/title')
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 65, in <lambda>
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 86, in command
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Sep 22 18:27:01 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

The cause of the failure is
Sep 22 18:26:09 ubuntu kernel: [ 2108.796066] Out of memory: Kill process 3049 (ubiquity) score 229 or sacrifice child
Sep 22 18:26:09 ubuntu kernel: [ 2108.796083] Killed process 7389 (debconf-communi) total-vm:23152kB, anon-rss:17280kB, file-rss:2060kB

[kevin kelly (kkelly17)]

this is the first time i have ever tried to install ubuntu. i though i would try it out first on a really old compaq presario 5000 series, windows xp. what would the best option be to install ubuntu. would i need a old version of ubuntu and if so were can i get it. HELP PLEASE!! :)

[dino99 (9d9)]

natty have reached EOL now