Activity log for bug #267531

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-09-07 18:50:57 Ron bug added bug
2008-09-07 18:50:57 Ron bug added attachment 'syslog' (syslog)
2008-09-07 18:51:26 Ron bug added attachment 'partman' (partman)
2008-09-14 07:58:32 Colin Watson ubiquity: status New Invalid
2008-09-14 07:58:32 Colin Watson ubiquity: statusexplanation Firstly, please report gOS bugs to whoever makes that, not to us. (I know they probably forgot to change the text that tells you to report installer bugs here, but I can't really help that ...) Here's the immediate cause of this: Sep 7 18:42:42 gOS-Live user-setup: gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: invalid ELF header That file can't really be broken on the CD, otherwise the installer itself would never have managed to start up. That means it must have been broken in the process of copying it from the CD to your hard disk. (Newer versions of Ubiquity make more of an effort to detect this situation.) Further investigation reveals these log messages about your hard disk: Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.192930] hdb:hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.198543] hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.198545] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.198945] hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.198948] hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.198950] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.200024] hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.200027] hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.200029] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.200269] hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.200272] hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.200274] ide: failed opcode was: unknown Sep 7 14:29:15 gOS-Live kernel: [ 58.244919] ide0: reset: master: error (0x7f?) So either the kernel's driver for your hard disk is broken, or your hard disk is faulty. It may help to check whether the hard disk is old and in need of replacement, or to move the system to a cooler environment.