Comment 5 for bug 40464

The bug occured on my machine, a HP nx8220 laptop, too.
At least one process continues to write to the log file. It is still growing ten minutes after the installer crashed.

Below is the output of ps -A :

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ps -A
  PID TTY TIME CMD
    1 ? 00:00:01 init
    2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
    4 ? 00:00:00 events/0
    5 ? 00:00:00 khelper
    6 ? 00:00:00 kthread
    8 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
    9 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
  192 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
  193 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
  195 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
  194 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
  790 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
 1802 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
 1807 ? 00:00:00 khubd
 1815 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
 1949 ? 00:00:00 loop0
 3414 ? 00:00:00 udevd
 4287 ? 00:00:00 shpchpd_event
 4370 ? 00:00:00 pccardd
 4377 ? 00:00:03 ipw2200/0
 5141 ? 00:00:00 acpid
 5229 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
 5255 ? 00:00:00 dd
 5257 ? 00:00:00 klogd
 5284 ? 00:00:00 hpiod
 5287 ? 00:00:00 python
 5332 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
 5357 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 5372 ? 00:00:01 hald
 5373 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
 5378 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 5428 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
 5438 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 5439 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 5672 ? 00:00:00 powernowd
 5711 ? 00:00:00 hcid
 5716 ? 00:00:00 sdpd
 5724 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
 5738 ? 00:00:00 mdadm
 5757 ? 00:00:00 atd
 5770 ? 00:00:00 cron
 5987 ? 00:00:00 kdm
 6013 tty7 00:00:38 Xorg
 6016 ? 00:00:00 kdm
 6032 tty1 00:00:00 login
 6033 tty1 00:00:00 bash
 6034 tty2 00:00:00 login
 6035 tty2 00:00:00 bash
 6036 tty3 00:00:00 login
 6037 tty3 00:00:00 bash
 6038 tty4 00:00:00 login
 6039 tty5 00:00:00 login
 6040 tty6 00:00:00 login
 6053 tty4 00:00:00 bash
 6054 tty5 00:00:00 bash
 6057 tty6 00:00:00 bash
 6212 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manag
 6248 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
 6251 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
 6252 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 6282 ? 00:00:00 dhclient3
 6288 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
 6291 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
 6293 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
 6295 ? 00:00:03 kded
 6297 ? 00:00:00 gam_server
 6460 ? 00:00:04 artsd
 6465 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
 6473 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
 6475 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
 6476 ? 00:00:01 kwin
 6479 ? 00:00:01 kdesktop
 6484 ? 00:00:00 kio_uiserver
 6487 ? 00:00:05 kicker
 6488 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
 6494 ? 00:00:01 adept_notifier
 6495 ? 00:00:00 kbluetoothd
 6497 ? 00:00:00 klipper
 6502 ? 00:00:00 knotify
 6518 ? 00:00:00 kmix
 6520 ? 00:00:00 katapult
 6530 ? 00:00:04 konsole
 6531 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
 6574 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
 6576 ? 00:00:25 konqueror
 6623 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
 6692 ? 00:00:00 kdesud
 7227 ? 00:00:00 kio_http
 7235 ? 00:00:00 debconf-communi
 7237 ? 00:00:08 partman
 7286 ? 00:00:00 jfsIO
 7287 ? 00:00:00 jfsCommit
 7288 ? 00:00:00 jfsSync
 7306 ? 00:00:00 xfslogd/0
 7307 ? 00:00:00 xfsdatad/0
 7308 ? 00:00:00 xfsbufd
 7326 ? 00:00:01 parted_server
 8500 pts/1 00:00:00 tail
13361 ? 00:00:00 aspell
27604 pts/3 00:00:00 bash
28831 ? 00:00:00 do_option
28832 ? 00:00:00 partman_newlayo
28911 ? 00:00:00 do_option
28912 ? 00:00:00 autopartition
29037 ? 00:00:00 perform_recipe
29051 ? 00:00:00 80visual
29075 ? 00:00:00 method
29076 pts/3 00:00:00 ps