Ubuntu 10.10 installer gives Errno 5.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Reviewing your log files attached to this bug report it seems that there is a problem with your installation media (CD/DVD) or with your hardware. Please retry your installation with new media and if it still fails I'd recommend testing your CD drive with other media. In the event that is is not in fact an error with your installation media or hardware please set the bug's status back to New. Thanks and good luck!

Hi Brian, thanks for getting back to me.

Just to clarify I'll go through as much of the process as I remember.

I have CD-Rs of Mint 9 and Mint 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.10. The bug occurs with all of them. Pre-empting your suggestion, two of them were burned on someone else's computer and two were burned with my hardware, so this bug can't be coming from my machine with the creation of the CD-Rs.

To head off the possibility of it being the my drive at point of installation (as opposed to CD creation) I also tried installing from a USB stick (can't remember if I used Unetbootin or usb-creator) and the bug still came up.

I've also used checksum - everything matched.

I use the drive to burn CD-Rs of my own music and never have any problems with creating the media or playing it back. I know that doesn't rule out a problem with the drive, but it does reduce it as a likelihood.

In the end I installed an ancient version of Xubuntu (I think it was 7.10) and upgraded the slow way.

As this is my only computer and I use it for school I'm afraid I can't test the process again and risk it turning into a data drive with a decorative keyboard.

So, in short, pretty sure it's not the media. Marking back to new.

I also have this problem with the installing Ubuntu 11.04 on my computer with wubi.

On around tens of times I tried to install, only 2 times the error did not happen. I do not know why. Same as Soybean, my computer works well and I have tried disk tests. This computer can install Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 normally without any problems. This is the first time I get this problem. However, I still winder why 2 times the installation is done normally.

This error happened to me the first time and it is quite confusing while trying to install the new Ubuntu.

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 look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
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[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

No activity for 60 days?

Oh, that's rich.

On 2 June 2018 2:29:07 pm AEST, Launchpad Bug Tracker <email address hidden> wrote:
>[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
>60
>days.]
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>** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Expired
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>Title:
> Ubuntu 10.10 installer gives Errno 5.
>
>Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
> Expired
>
>Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubiquity
>
>1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System
>-> About Ubuntu
> Ubuntu 10.10 ad64 desktop.
>
>2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy
>pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
> ubiquity:
> Installed: 2.4.8
> Candidate: 2.4.8
> Version table:
> *** 2.4.8 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> 3) What you expected to happen
> Functional multimedia infotainment platform.
>
> 4) What happened instead
> Uninteresting plastic sculpture.
>
> How do I attach multiple files so you get both syslog and partman?
>
> This seems to be a particularly irritating bug that's never been fixed
> in the three or more years it's been known. The only workarounds
> people seem to have found is slow burning the Live CD or pulling out
> one of your RAM sticks. I've tried both and it hasn't fixed the
> problem.
>
> Now the problem has inexplicably struck my system I've discovered the
> bug has legacy! I now can't install older version of Ubuntu or Mint
> without getting Errno 5 during the installation. It always appears at
> the same point in each installation - so 55% on Mint 9, a few minutes
> on Ubuntu 10.10, 25% or so on Mint 10, etc.
>
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