Thanks for that Google fodder, Dave: you beat me to it. :-) The workaround for this bug is to download and install Ubuntu (rather than Kubuntu), partitioning your disk(s) as you wish, but allowing a few GiB more in your root partition than you'd normally need. I gave it 15GiB, which was more than enough. Once the installer has finished, boot up your new Ubuntu installation, log into Unity, and install KDE using any of the usual methods of installing software. You can then log out of Unity and into KDE.
I found when I did this that the system started leaking memory like a sieve -- tens of KiB per second -- but rebooting my 11.10 VM promptly, while it was still responsive, solved that. Oddly, I couldn't find an obvious culprit in top(1), but I didn't spend long looking. Early indications are that my new KDE installation is now stable. People short of disk space can presumably uninstall Unity and parts of Gnome once KDE is running well, but I quite like having Unity available in case I do something stupid to KDE and need to recover it. (A well- configured jEdit beats vi any day.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874642 Title: Manual disk-partitioner crashes during Kubuntu 11.10 installation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/874642/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
