I'm not really sure, I was trying to renstall my system

[Richard Schneider]

Do not know what is the problem

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity 20.04.15 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.445
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jul 19 23:56:46 2020
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
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)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

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

I didn't look for your actual issue, but I saw a number of things that would have me checking your hardware.

I would suggest doing a `fsck` of your partition(s) (esp. sda5), after you evaluate the health of your drive (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools)

Jul 20 02:41:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 935.376199] EXT4-fs error (device sda5) in ext4_free_inode:352: Corrupt filesystem

which was not the first of such errors, but numerous error messages appeared that would make me want to check. For example

Jul 20 02:41:06 ubuntu kernel: [ 933.364729] ata2: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
Jul 20 02:41:06 ubuntu kernel: [ 933.364749] ata2.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jul 20 02:41:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 934.948871] ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jul 20 02:41:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 934.948883] ata2.01: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)

Is your drive healthy? (I'd check it's SMART health)

Is it getting good power? (maybe check your PSU/power supply) as a faulty PSU can cause good components to fail at random or predictable times.

let alone many messages like
Jul 20 02:34:56 ubuntu kernel: [ 62.570608] check: Corrupted low memory at (____ptrval____) (ae90 phys) = 7eef40017eef4001

Low memory may not be a the result of bad memory, the first 1MB can also occur when multiple devices try and share the same memory corrupting it, a misconfigured device or other cause(s).

This is comment only.

[Richard Schneider (prototyper)]

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your response. I have come to the conclusion the
motherboard is defective. I won't go into details on this but I have
tried so many different things and hard drives all with the same
results. I even tried to install a couple of old Windows operating
systems and the end result was no you cannot do this. Typically I build
my own computers from individual pieces. This is one I have had and
wanted to upgrade and when I did that I had to flash the Bios with a
newer version in order to support more memory. This only intensified my
issues with this computer. It is an Intel motherboard, made and sold by
Intel with no other brand name on it. I recently discovered Intel no
longer supports their older products, if any at all. I have given up
after two months of playing with this thing and placed an order for an
already assembled and ready to run desktop computer.

Sincerely,

Rich Schneider

On 7/20/20 1:22 AM, Chris Guiver wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> I didn't look for your actual issue, but I saw a number of things that
> would have me checking your hardware.
>
> I would suggest doing a `fsck` of your partition(s) (esp. sda5), after
> you evaluate the health of your drive
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools)
>
> Jul 20 02:41:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 935.376199] EXT4-fs error (device
> sda5) in ext4_free_inode:352: Corrupt filesystem
>
> which was not the first of such errors, but numerous error messages
> appeared that would make me want to check. For example
>
> Jul 20 02:41:06 ubuntu kernel: [ 933.364729] ata2: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
> Jul 20 02:41:06 ubuntu kernel: [ 933.364749] ata2.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
> Jul 20 02:41:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 934.948871] ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
> Jul 20 02:41:08 ubuntu kernel: [ 934.948883] ata2.01: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
>
> Is your drive healthy? (I'd check it's SMART health)
>
> Is it getting good power? (maybe check your PSU/power supply) as a
> faulty PSU can cause good components to fail at random or predictable
> times.
>
> let alone many messages like
> Jul 20 02:34:56 ubuntu kernel: [ 62.570608] check: Corrupted low memory at (____ptrval____) (ae90 phys) = 7eef40017eef4001
>
> Low memory may not be a the result of bad memory, the first 1MB can also
> occur when multiple devices try and share the same memory corrupting it,
> a misconfigured device or other cause(s).
>
> This is comment only.
>

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Based on your last comment, I've marked this bug incomplete.

I'm unsure how familiar you are with motherboards, but you could have given the motherboard a good visual scan (looking for swollen caps, etc). Either way from your description, and age of the box, it's possibly not worth the effort.

If you discover new information, you can change the status back to "New", after you leave a comment providing this new information that maybe helpful in finding any possible bugs. I wish you luck with the new desktop computer.

FYI: On a c2d, I would have run a lighter desktop, and not GNOME found on standard Ubuntu (desktop). It won't have had any differences with the install, but I suspect it'd been more fun to use (based on a c2d-6600 which isn't unlike your c2d-6400)

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