Kubuntu 13.10 Installation stalls at 68% Progress

[marco07]

Hello Folks:
I downloaded the 32 bit iso, checked MD5sum, and put it onto a USB pen drive using unetbootin as I usually do. It booted up fine on my Lenovo Thinkcenter desktop. However, it did not detect my wireless NIC, bcm43. I played around with the live system and all was working fine. Then I manualy installed the wireless driver and connected to the internet via my home network. After fiddling around for a while, I decided to install it on a separate test partition, sdb3. Installation went smooth all the way to 68% completion, then stalled with no further progress. The progress bar showing "configuring bcmwl-kernel-source 68%."
I retried to install a second time not manualy installing the bcm driver this round, again it stalled at 68% completion with the same message.
Is there a way to resolve this issue?
thanks!

[NoWorries]

I have never used unetbootin. I use usb-creator-kde which is available under >System>Startup Disk Creator. I have had problems with pre-release iso's and my approach has been to wait a couple of days and download another iso and try again. Hope you are successful the second time around with another iso.

[marco07]

I have never used unetbootin. I use usb-creator-kde which is available under >System>Startup Disk Creator. I have had problems with pre-release iso's and my approach has been to wait a couple of days and download another iso and try again. Hope you are successful the second time around with another iso.

I have always had success with unetbootin. Actually, I already have kubantu 13.04 installed on the same desktop (separate partition) by unetbootin, using the similar approach as in my OP without any glitch. I have heard that it is the broadcom chipset that may cause the problem, though I did not experince that while installing 13.04. Nontheless, I am now waiting for an updated iso to retry again.
Thanks for your reply!

[oshunluvr]

I've never had trouble with unetbootin.

Try installing without third party drivers.

[marco07]

I've never had trouble with unetbootin.

Try installing without third party drivers.

As I described in my OP, that did not work either and installation stalled at the same point of progress, 68%.
Thanks anyway!

[oshunluvr]

I saw that you said you didn't "manually" install the driver. I was referring to not checking the "Download third party software..." check box.

Another thing to try is to boot into the live environment and launch ubiquity from a konsole. Might give you some error feedback.

[marco07]

Indeed try to follow oshunluvr's advice, there are a few packages that might require you to agree with a licence or make a configuration choice.
For some reason you might presently not see the request, something a konsole would certainly show.

Thanks guys! I will try your suggestion and will report back here.

[marco07]

Well, your suggestion worked. I am posting this note from Kubuntu 13.10, Saucy. Right after installation and ensuing reboot, I had almost 400 mb of update/install including a kernel 3.10.0-2 version in Muon. The original (stock) kernel was 3.9.7. I have been playing with 13.10 for quite a while now, setting it up and configuring some applications and intalling a few of my favorite application programs, etc. So far it seem performing quite well and stable. No crashes at all. It seems it is some what faster than 13.04 and quite stable for an alpha version. I will keep on testing it more and reporting issues, if any.
Thanks for your advice.
P. S., BTW how do I install the third party packages now?

[marco07]

Open Muon and through Settings you can edit the repositories and enable/disable certain things like third party packages.

Typically you also want to go to medibuntu.org and add their repository.

Thanks! I followed the medibuntu.org instructions. It wroked! In muon, I had already enabled canonical partner repo. There were no others to utilize.
Still am enjoying 13.10 !

[rossdv8]

Interesting thread. I was wondering why one computer was just sitting and sitting about about sixty something percent installing from a DVD. While I was reading this and about to reboot yet again, I noticed it had moved to about 70% - after about 20 minutes. Then slowly moved to 72%. Went for a coffee and returned to find it at about 80%.

All I can think is that I told it to install non free software, and another choice that allowed it to download updates while installing. Something I normally don't.

O.T.
That said, when I installed 13.04 recently it killed some things like skype video. I installed a gnome baseed distro alongside and everything was fine. So I reinstalled 12.04.
Now that I have 13.10 Alpha alongside 12.04, I can see that it is working far better than 13.04 and running much more quickly than 12.04. Even boot to display all panel options is faster.
But Muon Update has died.

[rossdv8]

Tried to reply and say thanks but I couldn't. I used Muon Package Manager to do my updates a few times. Now Muon Update seems to be working properly. <ight have been something weird n my system.
Thank you!

[lcorken]

I had a stall/slowdown at 60? some percent. Had booted to live so I opened a konsole and ran top. It showed "grub-mount" at 99.x CPU, Later "ubiquity" at 99 percent CPU. I didn't time it but it took way longer to install than it should have. I booted the ISO from a SSD and installed to a HDD. Should have been much faster. Even on 13.04 Grub update takes forever with one of my 4 cores running at 100% CPU. May be some kind of a hardware config issue? Other distros seem OK but I have only tried Kubuntu on the SSD.

This 60% stall seems to happen to some of us but not others. I do remember a previous issue with having more than one drive connected during install.

Ken.