groovy gorrila installer crashes

[dbergst]

I just tried both of the available images on cdimage.ubuntu.com and neither one makes it through installation without the installer crashing. If any of the developers are monitoring these forums, the following images failed to install:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/20200628/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/20200629/

[CelticWarrior]

Please tell us where and how it crashes.

[dbergst]

THe installation at first appears to proceed normally, then after completing almost all the operations, a window pops up saying that the installer has crashed and that a bug report should be filed. This issue occurs from both installation options, i.e., Install Kubuntu, or from the live environment running the installer there.

[dbergst]

I just confirmed the issue reported occurs with today's build, i.e:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/20200630/

[acheronuk]

Please provide a link to the reported bug. Thanks.

[dbergst]

Please provide a link to the reported bug. Thanks.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1885976

[acheronuk]

Ok. Looks like that is already known, not specific to the KDE front end, and a fix is in the works.

[Chanath]

The problem is more or less a month old. There are no dailies to be downloaded. Last Ubuntu Daily was on 9th June.

[corradoventu]

You may find a recent but not fully tested daily here: http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/pending/

[sudodus]

It seems there are several severe bugs affecting Groovy Gorilly right now. See for example Bug report #1886148

I notice that the cloned systems try to boot via grub also in BIOS mode. where we used to have syslinux. It will be interesting to see, if this means, that Canonical is launching a major revamp of the boot system for live drives, and that there will be some heavy lifting for the developers until our Ubuntu flavours boot in a smooth way again.

Maybe the live drives as we know the concept will be skipped in favour of cloned images of installed systems with or without RAM drives, for example something similar to what is used for Raspberry Pi or in Easy OS.

PS.
If you are a moderator, and want to move this post to an own thread, I'd be happy
DS.