@guiverc

Thank you for pointing deficiencies in my reporting.
I've added additional context.

Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to provide apport reporting
since (1) Most of the times the system hard locks. (2) Since I've seen
it fail dozens of times, in order to save time I either increase VM's
RAM or install Zram before starting install.

** Description changed:

  Since around introduction of Kernel 6.8 to Daily builds, installation of
  Kubuntu / Ubuntu / Ubuntu-Mate builds randomly hangs(mostly), crashes or
- fails on systems with 3GB or less.
+ fails on systems with less than 3GB of RAM.
  
  When the system hangs, VM indicates heavy CPU and CDROM usage. My bet is
  on Kernel killing itself trying to "juggle" data between OverlayFS and
  Filesystem cache without a way to swap-out since someone decided that
  removing zram-config from livefs was a good idea.
  
  When the system doesn't hang, I can see kernel OOM killing random
  processes like calamares, cryptsetup etc.
  
  I had 100% success of installing Kubuntu 24.04 daily on VMs with 3GB, 75% 
with 2.5GB and almost 0% on 2GB VMs.
- Lvecd installers prioir to Linux 6.8 had no issues with 2GB VMs.
+ Lvecd installers prior to Linux 6.8 had no issues with 2GB VMs.
  
  Once the system is installed it functions satisfactory with 2GB.
  
  I believe adding zram-config to livefs/casper would allow installation
  on systems with only 2GB of RAM.
  
- Tested over a coulpe of months with many snapshots of 24.04 Daily builds
+ Tested over a couple of months with many snapshots of 24.04 Daily builds
  for Ubuntu, Kubutu and Ubuntu-Mate on VirtualBox and KVM/Qemu with
  default settings except enabled EFI.
  
  PS,
  The issue is not unique to calamares but I am filing it here since that's 
what I was asked to do by people on #kubuntu-devel and to be honest at the 
moment I don't care about anything but being able to test Kubuntu images on 
small VMs.

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Title:
  Kubuntu 24.04 daily builds - Install randomly hangs/fails/crashes on
  systems with less than ~3GB of RAM

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