Installation fail

[9a8sy]

I just downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu and went to install it on a Pentium 4 desktop that previously had XP on it. I get the main setup screen where it allows you several options including installation. Once I select installation, it appears to be installing but then comes up with a message that includes the following: "removing gdm-guest-session" It will not do anything else and the machine appears to go into sleep mode. When I try to shut it down, it appears that the kernel had loaded. Any ideas why the normal installation isn't continuing?

[9a8sy]

Unbelievable, a forum for ubuntu geeks and nobody has any installation suggestions for me...... Nice

[imanewbie]

we have the same problem man... what's you video card??? im gonna try swapping my video card with another one here... il keep you posted on what happens next...

[Claus7]

Hello,

I suppose that this is a specific bug hunting karmic. I would suggest you to try another distro and see if you get the same error...

Now reading this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm-guest-session/+bug/449712

I would try to find the guest-session-cleanup.sh and try to run it myself with root privileges and see if I would get rid of the error. In order to do so I would put in the installation cd and try to search where this file is located.

Another thing would be to upgrade my system. Maybe there I would have some new versions of the problematic files and solve my issue (via sudo apt-get upgrade).

Regards!

[ABW1]

Interesting! Try downloading another distro maybe and try that

[9a8sy]

Video card is nVidia. I believe it is a 7 series. I did download and install open Suse without any issues. However it seems to be quite a bit different than Ubuntu. I'm still a novice at operation Linux on the command line.

[9a8sy]

Does anyone know where I could find an answer to this question?? I'd really like to put Ubuntu on my PC but it isn't looking too good right now.

[9a8sy]

Well, I figured it out so I hope everyone puts this on in their memory banks in case someone else experiences the issue. I change my video card and the problem when away.....

[jken146]

You could try a different method of installing Ubuntu, perhaps a net-install.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation