ubiquity crashed due to input/output error (disk/file system is ok !!)

[martin suchanek]

ubuntu 18.04 LTS
ubiquity

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 7 22:47:04 2018
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It appears that your hard disk simply stopped responding during the install, and that it was a qemu disk. What is your host system? It looks like qemu broke.

Jun 7 20:44:34 ubuntu kernel: [ 1678.198766] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Jun 7 20:44:34 ubuntu kernel: [ 1678.198770] ata1.00: failed command: FLUSH CACHE EXT
Jun 7 20:44:34 ubuntu kernel: [ 1678.198774] ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
Jun 7 20:44:34 ubuntu kernel: [ 1678.198774] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jun 7 20:44:34 ubuntu kernel: [ 1678.198776] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Jun 7 20:44:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 1683.238632] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Jun 7 20:44:44 ubuntu kernel: [ 1688.218497] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]