Am I the only one who can't get the Ubuntu 12.04 graphical installer to work? The alternative installation disks were fine.

With Ububtu and Xubuntu, it stopped halfway through with an "unrecoverable error message" and dumped me into the live session. I hate that sort of thing! What was the error? And of course it was unrecoverable, or it would have recovered and gone on.

With Lubuntu, it was "system program problem detected", followed by a crash.

Strangely enough, Kubuntu installed.

There's certainly nothing wrong with this computer. Swift installed the previous week, and Archbang has installed after the *buntu debacles.

Not sure about the ubuntu distros as I never use them but with RedHat during graphical install I can switch to another tty with alt+f2 or f3 and see what the installer is actually doing and see any errors as they are returned on the command line.

Then why reply to a question about something of which you have no knowledge?

I'd be rather surprised if this were the case. The whole point of virtual terminals is that they are isolated from each other.

A sensible suggestion would be to launch the installer from a terminal emulator. Unfortunately, that doesn't work; ubiquity shuts down without reporting the reason to bash.

Another idea would be to look in /var/log/installer. The only message there is that it didn't have permission to access /root/.pangorc, and that shouldn't cause the installation to stop half completed, between creating /usr/bin and /usr/share.

UPDATE

A visit to Ubuntu's bug tracking service shows this is a major problem. Over 50 people have reported it, and we all know how few of those experiencing a bug bother to file a report. So far Canonical haven't got round to assigning it to a developer.

Linux is linux. You can switch terminals at any time on any one that I have come across. I am not sure what the key combination is to switch. but after doing some google searching with ubunutu it is the control key plus the function keys.

So test it then, I know for a fact it works. I use it all the time to monitor that my custom snippet files I create are executing properly.

Please don't attempt to flame someone when they are trying to offer actual helpful suggestions.