live image created by Startup Disk Creator fails to boot a second time

[Jeremy Bícha]

I made a USB installer for the Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 Beta 2 candidate image using Precise's Startup Disk Creator.

It booted fine. I created a sample text file and saved it to Documents and bookmarked a page in Firefox. I then rebooted. I got the normal isolinux screen (pick a language and run the live image or boot straight to the installer). The installer then freezes somewhere after plymouth has loaded.

After pressing Esc, I see some error messages. I'm attaching a screenshot as I don't think it has booted far enough for me to get to a command line to submit proper logs.

One of the last lines is
/scripts/casper-bottom/32disable_hibernation: line 24: can't created /root/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/disable-hibernate.pkla: Input/output error

And then when I rebooted yet again, I got different errors after pressing Esc.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1164633

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I used Startup Disk Creator to erase and re-create an installer USB stick and it also failed on the second boot (and subsequent boots). This time the error was more clear:

General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system.
bash: groups: command not found
root@ubuntu-gnome:~#

Ctrl+D just reboots.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm thinking this USB stick may be broken. I'll try installing with a different USB stick later.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The I/O errors lead me to believe that there is an issue with the disk also, you might check dmesg on the first boot to see if there are any errors.

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