kubuntu 15.10 installer crashes in virtualbox emulating non-ICH9 chipset

Bug #1508925 reported by Nick Shaforostoff
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Bug Description

i have downloaded 32-bit image of kubuntu 15.10 and booted with it my newly created virtualbox virtual machine, see attached image. i'm using win8 64-bit

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Nick Shaforostoff (shafff) wrote :
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Nick Shaforostoff (shafff) wrote :

possible duplicate: 1468413

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Nick Shaforostoff (shafff) wrote :

workaround: i could proceed with install after i switched chipset type of virtual machine to ich9

summary: - kubuntu 15.10 installer crashes immediately after startup (dbus python
- exception)
+ kubuntu 15.10 installer crashes in virtualbox emulating non-ICH9 chipset
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Nick Shaforostoff (shafff) wrote :

suggested resolution is to add a chipset check into installer and add a corresponding README entry.

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1508925

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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