[Bug 1033917] Re: canNOT INSTALL 11.10

[Alessandro Menti]

I had a look at your setup logs and noticed the following:
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963656] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963662] ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x24
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963667] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963673] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:48:e0:db:0f/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 36864 in
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963675]          res 51/40:11:17:dc:0f/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963678] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1960.963680] ata3.00: error: { UNC }
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1961.000139] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
Aug  7 09:46:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 1961.000149] ata3: EH complete

That means your hard drive is faulty (it has some bad sectors on it) and
the system is unable to write data due to that - do a backup
immediately, then perform a long test according to your drive
manufacturer's instructions (in your case, your hard drive is a Fujitsu
one, so the diagnostic utility is here:
http://storage.toshiba.com/techdocs/fjdtwin.exe - you must run it from
Windows - or http://storage.toshiba.com/techdocs/fjdt_700.zip - you must
run it from a DOS boot disk).

If the utility reports the drive as faulty, replace the hard disk
immediately.

Please test the drive and tell me here how the test went.

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

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Title:
  canNOT INSTALL 11.10

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  file:///var/log/syslog
  file:///var/log/partman

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Tue Aug  7 12:32:38 2012
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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