The disk probably had some problem. It was burned by a collegue at work, but I did not check it (though I should have). He burned it at a slow speed. I still don't rule out a DVD reader issue, however.
The messages appeared during 2 of my 5 installation attempts. Each time during the file to disk copying step. At 2 different percentage of the step (hinting strongly at some cd pb). As for the error messages, what I suggest is just to make them more readable. As is, with such kind of messages, if you are not very computer-savvy, you will be afraid you broke something or think it does not work and drop Ubuntu (which is bad, especially when the problem is just a bad cd). I think that a minor change in those messages will make a _huge_ difference. If you search for the phrase 'SQUASHFS error", you will see numerous questions about it. This illustrates that the messages are not explicit enough. I think that this is especially important when the problem occurs during the installation. Since Ubuntu is usually not preinstalled, the install step is critical, especially when you can't access to internet because you are in the middle of the installation... Another issue that I did not raise in my initial report is: would it be possible for the installer itself to handle such problems? When some component encounters an issue and stalls or fails, it would be nice to have the installer itself stop and give you a retry/abort option. For this component I'm afraid it would not be that easy however (you can't just set up a timer on this kind of operation). Thanks for the package change. Regards. -- Unhelpful SQUASHFS error messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249328 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
