[Bug 738530] Re: Ubuntu 10.10 installer gives Errno 5.

[Soybean]

Hi Brian, thanks for getting back to me.

Just to clarify I'll go through as much of the process as I remember.

I have CD-Rs of  Mint 9 and Mint 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.10. The bug
occurs with all of them. Pre-empting your suggestion, two of them were
burned on someone else's computer and two were burned with my hardware,
so this bug can't be coming from my machine with the creation of the CD-
Rs.

To head off the possibility of it being the my drive at point of
installation (as opposed to CD creation) I also tried installing from a
USB stick (can't remember if I used Unetbootin or usb-creator) and the
bug still came up.

I've also used checksum - everything matched.

I use the drive to burn CD-Rs of my own music and never have any
problems with creating the media or playing it back. I know that doesn't
rule out a problem with the drive, but it does reduce it as a
likelihood.

In the end I installed an ancient version of Xubuntu (I think it was
7.10) and upgraded the slow way.

As this is my only computer and I use it for school I'm afraid I can't
test the process again and risk it turning into a data drive with a
decorative keyboard.

So, in short, pretty sure it's not the media. Marking back to new.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Title:
  Ubuntu 10.10 installer gives Errno 5.

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
  Ubuntu 10.10 ad64 desktop.

  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
  ubiquity:
    Installed: 2.4.8
    Candidate: 2.4.8
    Version table:
   *** 2.4.8 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  
  3) What you expected to happen
  Functional multimedia infotainment platform.

  4) What happened instead
  Uninteresting plastic sculpture.

  How do I attach multiple files so you get both syslog and partman?

  This seems to be a particularly irritating bug that's never been fixed
  in the three or more years it's been known. The only workarounds
  people seem to have found is slow burning the Live CD or pulling out
  one of your RAM sticks. I've tried both and it hasn't fixed the
  problem.

  Now the problem has inexplicably struck  my system I've discovered the
  bug has legacy! I now can't install older version of Ubuntu or Mint
  without getting Errno 5 during the installation. It always appears at
  the same point in each installation - so 55% on Mint 9, a few minutes
  on Ubuntu 10.10, 25% or so on Mint 10, etc.

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