After doing some checking, the issue seems to occur when ubiquity does a swapoff, because there isn't enough physical memory to stop using swap at this point.
Killing some processes (applets, atd, hpi, cron, etc..) prior to starting install let's things continue working. Perhaps even running swapoff before starting the installer will help too. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: linux-source-2.6.20 => ubiquity Assignee: Ben Collins => Colin Watson Status: In Progress => Confirmed -- Ubuntu for PS3 freezes during install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs