Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 and 25.04: installation: animated progress bar, but no progress – systemd-journald crashes

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In a nutshell:

  • my organisation will provide a new computer
  • I’ll take the opportunity to switch from FreeBSD to Linux
  • tested repeatedly in VirtualBox (Linux guest, FreeBSD host)
  • I want to test a handful of things on real hardware – anything that should be compatible with the distro – before arranging the new computer.

I chose Ubuntu for root-on-ZFS.

(Install Ubuntu, then switch to Kubuntu.)