Definitely was an error writing to disk, changed out external disk, and it worked. Now have re-installed on internal hard drive and everything is working well. However my point about the whole thing is although I could figure it out, the average user could not. Asking them to sign up on the bug reporting site, and then further asking them what the problem is, is how should I say, inviting entertainment at best, or frustration most likely. It should be an automated process. I personally think that 13.10 is a very good operating system, and once I loaded it on a good disk, well all went very well. Much better than the nearly day and a half that it took me to load Windows XP Pro on the computer. The best part of the whole thing is that once I have Ubuntu loaded on my machine, I can start right off working, I don't have to have special drivers for my network interface card, my sound card, or my video card, it at least makes all of them work out of the box. I can then later download proprietary drivers if I so choose to, but I don't have to, that is the point.
I am trying to convert some of my clients to Ubuntu 13.10 from Windows XP, but in order to do that, when it does fail, it must have a way to get out of that failure without asking the user to report anything more than the logs, which it should collect automatically, It is not that XP does this, but Ubuntu should, so it would be one more step ahead of Windows. Thank you all for your assistance, it has been very helpful, something that I appreciate from the Ubuntu and Linux/GNU community in general. I would consider this issue closed, or solved, and if I have to go to the bug reporting site to do so I will. Thank you again, you have all been very helpful. Cordially, James Doud On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Brian Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > There was actually an issue writing to your hard disk: > > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768730] EXT4-fs warning (device > sdb1): ext4_end_bio:332: I/O error writing to inode 3148212 (offset 0 size > 0 starting block 12618509) > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768735] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 12618252 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768816] EXT4-fs warning (device > sdb1): ext4_end_bio:332: I/O error writing to inode 2498581 (offset 0 size > 106496 starting block 9995726) > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768819] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995444 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768822] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995445 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768824] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995446 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768826] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995447 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768828] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995448 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768830] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995449 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768832] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995450 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768834] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995451 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768836] Buffer I/O error on device > sdb1, logical block 9995452 > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768870] EXT4-fs warning (device > sdb1): ext4_end_bio:332: I/O error writing to inode 2498583 (offset 0 size > 24576 starting block 10010366) > Jan 5 02:52:33 ubuntu kernel: [ 1137.768892] EXT4-fs warning (device > sdb1): ext4_end_bio:332: I/O error writing to inode 2498584 (offset 0 size > 4096 starting block 10010398) > > These messages are indicative of a failing disk drive. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266148 > > Title: > installer crashed on install to external HDD > > Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > installler crashed > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 > Package: ubiquity 2.15.26 [modified: > lib/partman/automatically_partition/question] > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 > Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 > ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 > Architecture: amd64 > CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1 > Date: Sat Jan 4 22:05:57 2014 > InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper > initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity > LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 > (20131016.1) > MarkForUpload: True > ProcEnviron: > LANGUAGE=en_US > PATH=(custom, no user) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: ubiquity > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1266148/+subscriptions > -- Cordially Yours; James E. Doud "ad copy here" "Caution: Nitroglycerin has the capacity to sense when a stupid or clumsy person is around and, if given a chance, it will try to kill him." (Warring found on actual container of Nitroglycerin) "Tut, tut, child! Every thing's got a moral, if only you can find it." The Duchess: Alice in Wonderland "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. " Mark Twain -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266148 Title: installer crashed on install to external HDD To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1266148/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
