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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-04-24 12:07, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 4/24/13 1:03 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> On 2013-04-24 10:36, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>> On 4/23/13 1:15 PM, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
>>>> Sorry we are currently respinning. The PowerPC Kubuntu image should appear
>>>> soon.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you all for helping us test!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
>>>> Kubuntu member
>>>
>>> Thanks for getting the respin up there.  I do hope there will be a PPC
>>> Kubuntu for 13.04
>>>
>>> I went through the tests this morning and could not get the graphical
>>> installer to run to completion.  It would just fail without warning or
>>> error messages at various intervals, I tried several reboots and within
>>> those several times each with the installer.  Each time it just quit
>>> quietly.  On the Live session, rekonq wouldn't run nor could the system
>>> sucessfully install the needed debugging tools to file a report on that.
>>>
>>> If there's another respin I might be able to try later tonight, or
>>> definitely tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Maybe it works on different hardware.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Lars
>>>
>>>
>> How much RAM is there? My experience tells me that the alternate
>> installer works better when there is less than 768 MB RAM (but this is
>> with the i386 version, not PPC). The symptoms with the desktop version
>> (graphical installer) are the same as you describe.
> 
> I guess there's 1 GB (1024700 kB).  The full specs are here:
> 	http://people.ubuntu.com/~larsnooden/Hw/g4.ti.hwinfo
> 
> I've not had a problem like that with the Lubuntu installer, but that is
> clearly different.  Even though the Kubuntu installer quits quietly,
> there might be a place were the errors are reported to a log.  Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
Maybe this link will help you

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2137004&p=12610701#post12610701

'Run ubiquity --debug and the installer will run fine'

Best regards
Nio