Ubiquity crashes when installing iso to bare metal, or as VM in KVM/QEMU

[ajgreeny]

Same problem with today's daily iso (20 Nov 2021).

As bob-H says in the bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1951399 we seem to be trying hard but getting nowhere with this; if we can't install the OS how can we test it?

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

only way we can test the os is to upgrade to it, is there a mini.iso? then we could just install the meta package to get as clean of a upgrade as possible

[Doug S]

At this point all we can do is wait. At least the bug reports are more or less sorted out now, and finally realized to all be the same thing. If readers have not done so already, please click on "This bug affects me also" in the now main bug report to increase the heat. I won't even try the daily again until the date of the AMD64 file in the Ubuntu current directory becomes the date of the day I look. Since we know it is the same root issue for all flavours of Ubuntu, I suggest that others could do the same.

[ajgreeny]

Good idea and I shall be doing the same, though I will keep trying the live session to ensure that it runs well; I'll just not bother to attempt installing until the iso date matches the day of the install attempt.

[guiverc]

For those interested in the issue, refer Norbert's post on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1951399

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...99/comments/26

A workaround is provided too; though if that's too much work; Lubuntu jammy still installs (as does Ubuntu Studio...)

Sorry I couldn't help myself with the Lubuntu ref... (I'm a Lubuntu team member for those that didn't know...)

[ajgreeny]

Assuming I have the time I shall try Norbert's workaround later today.

Thanks for pointing us in that direction; it's been difficult to keep up to date with this problem and all of the duplication across all of the different *buntu versions so this is very helpful.

EDIT:

Woowhooo!!!

It worked fine installing today's (22 Nov 2021) iso of Xubuntu in KVM/QEMU in UEFI mode, so many thanks are due to Norbert for managing to figure that out.

What we now need is a new iso build that contains the working version of debianutils or the old debianutils_4.11.2_amd64.deb in its place.

[VMC]

It's fixed with today's "2021-11-24 08:32" ISO.

[ajgreeny]

It's fixed with today's "2021-11-24 08:32" ISO.

But not for all the ISOs of the different DE versions.

I have just zsynced today's iso of Xubuntu-jammy timed at 2021-11-24 02:14 and tried installing it using KVM/QEMU.

Unlike today's Ubuntu iso mentioned above, the Xubuntu ISO still suffers with the crash when installation starts. I had assumed that all the daily ISOs would now be OK to install but apparently that's not yet the case.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

But not for all the ISOs of the different DE versions.

I have just zsynced today's iso of Xubuntu-jammy timed at 2021-11-24 02:14 and tried installing it using KVM/QEMU.

Unlike today's Ubuntu iso mentioned above, the Xubuntu ISO still suffers with the crash when installation starts. I had assumed that all the daily ISOs would now be OK to install but apparently that's not yet the case.

from what i saw in the bug report, the xubuntu daily just missed the update for the fix when it was made

[ajgreeny]

from what i saw in the bug report, the xubuntu daily just missed the update for the fix when it was made

Yes, I saw that on the bug site a short while ago so I'll zsync yesterday's ISO and try again later with today's.

It sounds as if it has definitely been fixed at last!

Huge thanks to all.

EDIT

Yes, it seems to be fixed now and I've installed Xubuntu 22.04 into a newly made partition in dual boot with my main 20.04 system.
Working well at the moment but who knows how it will go between now and April next year.
Time will tell.