[CONFIGURATION] Kubuntu 24.04 Installation in VirtualBox: Installer Stuck at 88% - Was It Successful?

[kasuky17]

Hello everyone,

I recently tried installing Kubuntu 24.04 on a virtual machine using VirtualBox. Everything was going smoothly until the installer got stuck at 88%, indicating it was installing [HTML]libreoffice-help[/HTML]. After waiting for a while without any progress, I forced a manual crash to terminate the installation process.

To my surprise, the virtual machine rebooted, and Kubuntu seems to be functioning correctly. However, this experience has raised concerns about the integrity of the installation, especially since I plan to migrate from Linux Mint to Kubuntu on my main machine.

My questions are:

1. How can I verify that there were no issues during the Kubuntu installation on my virtual machine?
2. Is it safe to proceed with the Kubuntu installation on my native PC after this experience?
3. Are there any tools or commands in Kubuntu to check the system's integrity and ensure everything was installed correctly?

I appreciate any advice or experiences you can share. Thank you in advance!

[claydoh]

That 88% is difficult to assess, in terms of the overall process. At that point, it probably finioshed writing the OS image to the disk, and was doing cleanup -- deleting packages from the OS used by the instsaller, or possibly a lot more of one has chosen the Minimal install -- this actually removes packages from the install, and is my guess as to why you have a booted and operational OS.
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Are you positive that it was installing Libreoffice help files? I know Kubuntu has a different installer, but the actual OS image used does include this, and as mentioned, removes this stuff after it has been blasted to the drive,
This makes me think it dies in the cleanup stage - did you use the Minimal option?

If it was a real install, and failed, it likely would do so for a different reason, or stage. If it were me, I'd start over since there is nothing lost except for time.

1. I don't know of a way to verify an install other than booting it. One can check the ISO image before beginning, which verifies the compressed OS image in it.
2. probably, but check the ISO or download a new one, as well as trying different tools to create the USB installer. Failure to install won't affect any other OS installs, but some like to create the empty space or even create the partitions beforehand. VMs are very good indicators of how an OS operates, but not 100%, especially as these use 'fake' hardware and share resources. Try a few installs to see if things work correctly and consistently. You may need to adjust your ram allocations ans other things - such as virtualization support in your BIOS/Firmware, which can make a difference with VM software.
3. Not that I am aware of, other than trying it out, and updating if necessary.