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

[Chris Guiver]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

Bug reporting is about finding & fixing problems thus preventing future
users from hitting the same bug.

I suspect a Support site would be more appropriate, eg.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu. You can also find help with your
problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community
http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or
https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709

Your error appears to be a hardware issue with your swap device, so I'd
check out your drive's health, ie.

Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605402] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb5): ext4_end_bio:315: I/O error 10 writing to inode 150382 (offset 0 size 4096 starting block 13261883)
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605408] Buffer I/O error on device sdb5, logical block 761658
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605424] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb5): ext4_end_bio:315: I/O error 10 writing to inode 150383 (offset 0 size 4096 starting block 13261884)
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605427] Buffer I/O error on device sdb5, logical block 761659
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605474] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 115981056 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 8 prio class 0
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605483] Read-error on swap-device (8:16:115981064)
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605514] Read-error on swap-device (8:16:115981072)
Apr  8 06:44:15 ubuntu kernel: [ 6097.605529] Read-error on swap-device (8:16:115981080)
..
Apr  8 07:08:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 7579.862116] Write-error on swap-device (8:16:167720)
Apr  8 07:08:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 7579.862127] Write-error on swap-device (8:16:167728)

and errors continue..

I would check out your drive health, eg.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools

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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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