Problems installing KDE distro's on VirtualBox

[Stievie Gonzales]

Hello,

Since a few days I'm building my own virtual computerlab.
Installing different OS, without any problem.

Only problem I have is with installing KDE distro's

For instance Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, no problem, only KDE doesn't want to install.
I get the KDE desktop and the icon to install KDE and then after a few minutes I get the message: "installer crashed".
Because I thought maybe the ISO was corrupted, I downloaded from other mirrors and also torrents.
All the different ISO's I try, give me the same message.

The only working KDE distro I have for now is Kubuntu 14.04

Anyone knows what causes this problem...
I tried 5 or 6 DIFFERENT iso's all with the same result.

Kind regards
Stievie

[loukingjr]

No idea why you are having issues. I downloaded the LM 17.1 KDE (64bit) .iso and it runs and installed just fine. Make sure all the template settings are correct.

Something else is going on. Whether a distro is using the KDE DE should make no difference.

[Stievie Gonzales]

I see the desktop with the icon which tells me to install, because i'm using virual live cd, and then I get the message "Installer crashed"

I don't see the option in the beginning (on booting) to install this distro in stead of trying out

[loukingjr]

I don't see the option in the beginning (on booting) to install this distro in stead of trying out

You don't see the option because Linux Mint uses a different installer than Ubuntu.
Can you still install non-KDE distros because there is zero difference to VirtualBox whether you are installing KDE or Gnome3, or XFCE.
You need to post some logs.
Minimum information needed for assistance.

[Stievie Gonzales]

I installed many other distro's without any problems, only problem I'm having is with Linux Mint 17.1 KDE and Kubuntu 14.04/14.10...

Let me see if I can get you some logs.

[loukingjr]

Logs would help. I am confused now. You said you had Kubuntu 14.04 working earlier. Now it's a problem?

[Stievie Gonzales]

Yes you're right I am sorry, Kubuntu 14.04 is working

But there was definately some KDE distro other than Linux Mint KDE that wouldn't install.
Maybe Kubuntu 14.10, I installed (or tried to install) so many distro's I forgot which one...

Let me go and test things out.

[Stievie Gonzales]

First I get this (which is normal):



Then when I click on the install button this happens:



Installer crashed
Installer crashed<2>
Installer crashed<3>

I have Windows 7 as host.
I'm using the most recent VirtualBox.
Also have most recent guest additions.

This is the text written inside the box

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 463, in <lambda>
0, lambda: self.dbfilter.start(auto_process=True))
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/filteredcommand.py", line 103, in start
prep = self.prepare()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py", line 233, in prepare
self.setup_sufficient_space()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py", line 245, in setup_sufficient_space
self.ui.set_sufficient_space(self.big_enough(size))
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py", line 252, in big_enough
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py", line 848, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py", line 1384, in _execute_child
restore_signals, start_new_session, preexec_fn)
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

I also tried the ubuntu-bug ubiquity command in terminal but no result.

[Stievie Gonzales]

I think I found the logs

[loukingjr]

try increasing the VRAM for the guest to 64MBs.

[Stievie Gonzales]

Will try that...
But I see all the other Linux distros work fine with only 12MB video memory.
Win 7 works good with 27MB

Open suse 13.2 KDE and Kubuntu 14.04 both work with only 12MB.

Even the 32 bit version of LM 17.1 KDE not working...

[Stievie Gonzales]

Still the same:

Installer keeps crashing.

Tried different ISO's, tried 32 and 64 bit version, torrent, none of them seem to work.

[Perryg]

What is drive "S"?
also have you verified the md5sum matches the original source?

[Stievie Gonzales]

video memory 64bit: installer crashes from beginning
video memory 128bit: installer crashes from beginning
video memory 32 bit: installer crashes from beginning
video memory 12 bit: installer crashes from beginning

video memory 16 bit: installer crashes after a few steps on "disk setup"

[Stievie Gonzales]

What is drive "S"?
also have you verified the md5sum matches the original source?

Drive "S" is my drive... I have 6 different drives in computer.

How do I check the md5sum?
Like I said, I already tried many different ISO, and I would be surprised if they all are faulty.