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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Bolesław Tokarski (boleslaw-tokarski):

When I boot the GTK version of mini-iso
(http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-i386/20101020ubuntu111/images/netboot/gtk/mini.iso),
X server keeps crashing/restarting.

The same problem emerges when I build debian-installer package manually.

The X.log.0 errors with:
(EE) Failed to load module "Intel" (on real hardware)
(EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (on a VirtualBox VM)
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument
(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument

The driver related messages are expected to be there - the mini-iso does
not contain all the Xorg drivers, but is expected to start with FBDEV.
However, it seems that either FBDEV has some issues, or there is
something else that crashes the X server.

The problem is not hardware related, as I managed to run the X server on
a fully-installed system with the fbdev driver. Also, the Debian
squeeze/wheezy GTK mini-isos work flawlessly (aside from the fact you
can't install Ubuntu with that).

So, I believe that the debian-installer package or some of the udebs it
pulls has a bug that causes this behaviour. I can try some more digging,
but I would need to know where to dig.

** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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GTK mini-iso can't start X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939278
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