Installing 11.10 Beta 2 in Virtual Box

[lummie]

had chosen to install mp3, but not updates, otherwise vanilla install.
no home encryption, left it installing.
Left it going and when I went back to it crash message was displayed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.7.35
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.284
Date: Sun Sep 25 19:43:22 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1667, in <module>
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 214, in run
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.install_restricted_extras()
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1148, in install_restricted_extras
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.do_install(packages)
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 761, in do_install
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: cache.open(None)
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 158, in open
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self._set.add(pkg.get_fullname(pretty=True))
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py: MemoryError
Sep 25 19:35:26 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Additionally in UbiquitySyslog we see:

kernel: [ 1073.059102] plugininstall.p[7101] general protection ip:4ef390 sp:7fffbebf03f8 error:0 in python2.7[400000+233000]

[dino99 (9d9)]

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