[Bug 820842] Re: System ran out of memory during installation

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Thanks for following up.
512MB is not enough to install in a VM, it requires at least between 750MB and 800MB otherwise you'll experience all kind of trouble including kernel errors (e.g 790712)

Maybe a note should be added to the minimal requirements specs
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/installation-guide/i386/minimum-hardware-
reqts.html

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Low

** Summary changed:

- System ran out of memory during installation
+ Minimal memory requirement (512MB) too low to install Ubuntu Desktop in a VM

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Title:
  Minimal memory requirement (512MB) too low to install Ubuntu Desktop
  in a VM

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When I Install kubuntu with manual partitionning, ubiquity stops and a
  kde sessions is started. this problem happens when I click on "Install
  now" (to apply changes on my hard drives and continue the install
  process). Once the kde session is started everything is black :  xorg,
  tty etc... I cannot switch to tty1 anymore.

  Problem found with: kubuntu desktop amd64 20110803.1.
  Also when X is started there is the following message on tty1 : "FATAL: error inserting ramzswap" and "ramzswap.ko: invalid module format"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.7.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.275
  Date: Thu Aug  4 09:58:00 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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