One thing about just getting an error message like "An error occured while reading the CDROM" is that while it can tell a user that something has gone wrong, it's not very helpful. A user knows something is wrong by seeing those other errors, too. One reason for having long, descriptive, and often cryptic errors is that they can help developers and the more experienced users actually see what is going wrong - a major benefit of using open source software. This allows people to use debugging methods and seek more in depth help with their problems in order to track down the source.
For example: [00123.173770] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [12345678:141e] I believe that the left bracket number is a tick count of the kernel, the middle stuff is the error, and the right bracket number is a hexadecimal valued block number of the cd that is corrupted. While cds don't generally get fixed, we can at least see what is going on and where. Though these specifics aren't very useful to us, a developer might know what is stored around that area of the disc, and if it were a problem on their end, it can hopefully be fixed. Don't get your hopes up on this one, it appears that you just have a bad cd, either because of a corrupted image file or just a bad burn. It is not likely that the installer can handle such errors since the disc itself is corrupted, and the best way to proceed with a corrupt installer is to just stop where it is and not risk further damage to the system. Retrying the install would not be helpful and could in fact be harmful. Finally, with errors like that, a user can search for them on google (or their search engine of choice) and see what other people have to say about it, and thus figure out what the problem is, and possibly what to do about it. This is part of the community support that comes with open source software, and is generally not available with proprietary software. I will leave this bug report as "Incomplete" for now, feel free to continue discussion. -- 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
