Comment 18 for bug 444901

There are two bugs here. One is what's causing the installer to crash, and the other is what's causing the live CD session to crash.

The former is, I suspect, a webkit bug that we've identified as causing lots of installer crashes. I've been dealing with each of those installer crash reports individually, to make sure we're not missing a crash that simply looks similar to the webkit one. However, the webkit bug is fixed in the latest version in the archive, so please try the latest daily live CD (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/) if you're experiencing installer crashes.

The latter bug that's occurring here is caused by the installer starting the noninteractive frontend on failure, which proceeds to install onto the live CD session, thus causing the missing icons and "0 bytes free space" messages. I've committed a fix for this to trunk, but it hasn't made it onto the CDs yet.

If you are experiencing crashes with a daily live CD that's newer than yesterday, please file a new bug.

Thanks!