Ubuntu and HP servers

From time to time some HP machines give me a problem with the installer. After choosing the local (the second item) it freezes. After messing with it and doing some googeling I found a fix. Flip to the console (alt+F2) and do a ps aux | grep kbd. There are a couple of hits. The one that has the kdb.postinst, kill -12 that. Flip back to the installer, there will be an error. Hit ok, and at the main menu move down one from configure keyboard. Apparently there is a bug in the installer that tries to probe some weird usb keyboards.

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