[Bug 1871571] [NEW] Installer crashed while attempting an install on USB drive.

[Stefan Ladd]

Public bug reported:

Hi all. Somewhat old Ubuntu user here who caught the Linux bug again,
and thought I'd give 18.04 a go. Last time I'd installed Ubuntu, I'd
just put on the target computer's hard drive, but this time around I
wanted to do something different: installing a full copy on a flash
drive.

Now, initially, for about the first half hour or so things seemed to be
going smoothly.....but around 40 minutes in, I noticed this peculiar
error: "Write Error in swap file"(or something to that effect), and
after that Ubiquity seemed to just hang there until it crashed about 10
minutes ago.

I did end up looking this up online while I was trying to figure out
what was wrong, and apparently this mainly seems to be a problem when
you've run out of hard disk space-I did use up all my available space
when setting up the partitions initially, so maybe that wasn't the best
move?

In any case, hopefully I won't run into anymore problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-28.30~18.04.1-generic 5.3.13
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394.3
Date: Wed Apr  8 02:53:08 2020
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20200203.1)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubiquity-18.04.14.14 ubuntu

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Title:
  Installer crashed while attempting an install on USB drive.

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi all. Somewhat old Ubuntu user here who caught the Linux bug again,
  and thought I'd give 18.04 a go. Last time I'd installed Ubuntu, I'd
  just put on the target computer's hard drive, but this time around I
  wanted to do something different: installing a full copy on a flash
  drive.

  Now, initially, for about the first half hour or so things seemed to
  be going smoothly.....but around 40 minutes in, I noticed this
  peculiar error: "Write Error in swap file"(or something to that
  effect), and after that Ubiquity seemed to just hang there until it
  crashed about 10 minutes ago.

  I did end up looking this up online while I was trying to figure out
  what was wrong, and apparently this mainly seems to be a problem when
  you've run out of hard disk space-I did use up all my available space
  when setting up the partitions initially, so maybe that wasn't the
  best move?

  In any case, hopefully I won't run into anymore problems.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-28.30~18.04.1-generic 5.3.13
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-28-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394.3
  Date: Wed Apr  8 02:53:08 2020
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20200203.1)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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