Yes, I know that this is a pre-release version. But isn’t the purpose of a pre-release version to identify (and fix!) problems, especially critical ones like this, before the release date ?!?!
Yes, and the expectation towards people installing it is that they report these problems, especially if the bug report tool already prepared everything for you and you only need to click the “Send” button now
Note that feature freeze was only very recently, the stabilization phase has only begun…
Guess what I did. Like 10 times now. This will make the window freeze for like 5 minutes, and then it goes away with no further information or anything. Did it actually send anything? I have no idea. Especially, launching “Install Ubuntu 25.04” does absolutely nothing! It Does not even show the “Sorry…” dialog. I tried opening a terminal, but to no success either
Yes. One difference is that there are no Desktop icons. Also no error message right at the start. But when I click the “Install” icon on the top of the left side bar, it will only make the UI disappear for 1 second and then re-appear. Then… nothing. No installer. No error message.
Yes that is the point however you seem to be expecting someone to hand you a fix immediately so you can go on with your installation and running. In some cases with pre release software you will hit a wall. The only choice is to send a bug report then wait. You will likely not get a response or anything, it will come down a normal update then it will be fixed. I don’t recall how the bug tool works but you should be able to track it somehow on Launchpad I believe.
Then, put it on hold, reboot into a working installation and continue about your day until you decide to try again hoping that the update was pushed.
Patience is a very big thing in testing pre release stuff. Sometimes there is nothing you can do but wait… that is unless you have both the desire and ability to fix it yourself and push a patch upstream. Not many can do that.
Yes that is the point however you seem to be expecting someone to hand you a fix immediately so you can go on with your installation and running.
Nope, I don’t expect an immediate fix. What I do expect, though, is that, if no fix is currently available, someone either confirms my problem as a known problem that is being worked on, or that someone confirms that this is a new problem and that they add it to their backlog.
You may launch the terminal with Ctrl+alt+t
Fix to my bug is currently available but can’t be tested because a new ISO is not available. If you want you may open the link to my bug and click on ‘affect me’
Not sure how well that works in a live session, but if the fixed Installer is already out there you could try a sudo snap refresh ubuntu-desktop-bootstrap
And in case that works, try to launch it again…
could try a sudo snap refresh ubuntu-desktop-bootstrap
And in case that works, try to launch it again…
This actually worked to make the installer start. Installation seemed to succeed too.
…but after the reboot Ubuntu won’t come up.
It’s just showing a “black” screen with an “X” shaped cursor showing up (and disappearing) every few seconds. After a while, it just remains completely black.
Already tried running “apt update” from the recovery mode. It updated quite a few packages, but the “black screen” problem still remains.
