Comment 15 for bug 444901

@NoOp: good catch! I downloaded karmic daily 2009-10-14, and tried an install the old way, and got the same sort of errors. So then I took your suggestion and did sudo apt-get remove ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu first, and now the install seems to be going fine.

While I waited for the install I looked around some, and found bug #445050. Looks like they are duplicates (and that one also mentions #440407 as a probable duplicate). Being a newcomer here, I'll let someone else make that call officially.

For the record, my test machine's CPU is an Athlon XP 2000+ (notably, most others reporting this problem also have Athlons).