hello, i have just purchased a disc with ubuntu 18 bionic beaver.. it installled with ease up until about halfway through and said it had an error with the installation.

[robert]

it will let me try ubuntu perefectly, but when i try to install the cd it stops installing a little after it starts the process.. please help :(

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Sat Oct 6 18:16:49 2018
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

The following errors can be found in UbiquitySyslog.txt which was automatically attached to this bug report:

Oct 7 01:15:37 ubuntu kernel: [ 2323.626009] SQUASHFS error: zlib decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Oct 7 01:15:38 ubuntu kernel: [ 2323.626012] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x2f02ede7

It's possible you had a bad write to your media or for some other reason its contents could not be read. When having such problems should try the option to check the integrity of the image from the installer boot menu, and if this confirms that the media is corrupt, try re-writing it.

I'm closing this bug due to the time that has elapsed since you raised it. I hope you were eventually successful installing Ubuntu.