[Bug 688217] Re: ubiquity crashes opening "temporary file /target/etc/apt//sed6BVe8D" during installation

[Brian Murray]

>From syslog.txt this appears to be due to hardware error with the hard
drive.

Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050002 action 0xe frozen
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch }
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5.00: cmd 35/00:68:60:4f:58/00:02:5f:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 315392 out
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error)
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
Dec  9 20:04:33 bt kernel: ata5: hard resetting link
Dec  9 20:04:34 bt kernel: ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Dec  9 20:04:34 bt kernel: ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
Dec  9 20:04:34 bt kernel: ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
Dec  9 20:04:34 bt kernel: ata5: EH complete

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

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Title:
  ubiquity crashes opening "temporary file /target/etc/apt//sed6BVe8D"
  during installation

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I see this error while trying to install Backtrack 4 r2 from a live-
  cd:

  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt finish-install: Disabling CD in sources.list
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt ubiquity: sed: couldn't open temporary file /target/etc/apt//sed6BVe8D: Read-only file system
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python: Exception during installation:
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2112, in <module>
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python:     install.run()
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 368, in run
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python:     self.configure_locales()
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python:   File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1041, in configure_locales
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python:     raise InstallStepError("LanguageApply failed with code %d" % ret)
  Dec  9 20:18:03 bt python: InstallStepError: LanguageApply failed with code 4

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