Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #66608
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 66608

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tiborh (tiborh) wrote : Re: [Bug 66608] Re: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process, errors on hdd

Hello Andres,

Sorry to disappoint you but I since gave up on Ubuntu. The positive thing is
that it's not for Microsoft but another Linux distribution. At the moment
I'm testing three Linux systems on my computer (Debian (the main system),
Fedora, UHU Linux, which is the fastest booting Linux I've met so far.)
First I tried to installed Ubuntu where Fedora is now, then I tried to
install it where UHU Linux is at the moment. By now I've run out of
partitions which my BIOS can start a system from.

And now some positive feedback:
Ubuntu's Partition Manager was a very positive experience for me.
I also liked the live CD.
As I understand Ubuntu is the fastest developing distribution at the moment,
so in a year or so I might re-start experimenting with it.

I hope you understand that I cannot do more on the error report I started
earlier. I've tested Ubuntu on two other computers too, one only had a
Windows 98 system on it and the other was brand new with an empty hard disk.
The installation procedure went without any errors. I guess Ubuntu is a
starter system and may not be for people like me, whose hard disk looks like
a zebra with all the strips of partitions.

Best regards,
Tibor Harcsa

On 05/11/06, SEAQ - Andres Mujica <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi tiborh,
>
> checking your logs posted, i've found a lot of this
>
> Oct 17 19:21:00 ubuntu kernel: [17180942.944000] hdd: command error:
> status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>
> Also about 3 different disks with several partitions on them, some with
> reiserfs, ext2/3, swap, ntfs and swap.
>
> So i'm wondering if could be a deffective media issue on your cd (hdd??)
> or your disks ? hdb and hdc as both reports read only errors.
>
> Also, there's some bugs with reiserfs and ubiquity.
>
> So can you tell us if you can still reproduce this bug with edgy release
> an new media?
>
> thanks a lot
>
> --
> /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process, errors on hdd
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/66608
>

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Tibor Harcsa
<email address hidden>