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Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

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The stretch installer is flakey; I have an amd k8 athelon and don't use 
ssd drives on that machine sata disks and nothing in that select 
packages step would install.

On Wed, 11 May 2016, Albin Otterh?ll wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:24:55
> From: Albin Otterh?ll <gmane@otterhall.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installer crash at the end of installation
> Resent-Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 22:25:20 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> On 05/11/2016 07:41 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:20:16PM +0000, Albin Otterh?ll wrote:
>>> I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the
>>> first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The
>>> problem is that the installer crash at the end of the "[s]elect and 
>>> install
>>> packages" step. All the packages have been downloaded and most of them are
>>> installed; the installer crash about 85 percent into the installation. 
>>> I've
>>> tried to redo the step and the whole installation, nothing helps. I've
>>> verified the ISO with GPG and SHA512sums and done an integrity check of 
>>> the
>>> USB disk.
>>> 
>>> This is the last part of the error log (/var/log/syslog):
>> 
>> Your problem is the disk, the cable, or the USB port.
>> 
>>>> kernel: [...] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>> kernel: [...] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
>>>> kernel: [...] Write(10): 2a 00 00 17 c0 00 00 00 08 00
>>>> kernel: [...] EXT4-fs error (device dm-1): ext4_journal_check_start:56:
>>> Detected aborted journal
>> 
>> This. Which led to the kernel remounting it read-only:
>> 
>>> '/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb.distrib': Read-only file system
>> 
>> and this will bite you later:
>> 
>>>> lilo-installer: LILO not usable on EFI PCs without BIOS compatibility;
>>> use grub-efi
>> 
>> 
>>> The answers I got on IRC suggests that it was something wrong with my SSD.
>>> So I tested it with all the tools I know.
>>> 
>>> First I run an extended self-test with S.M.A.R.T. tools. Everything comes
>>> up OK. No fails. I when run badblocks:
>>> 
>>> # badblocks -vsw /dev/sda
>>>> Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
>>>>  From block 0 to 234431063
>>>> [---]
>>>> Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)
>>> 
>>> It's suggested to me to test by write random data to a file in a similar
>>> environment to "emulate" the debian-installer. This is what I did:
>>> 
>>> 1. Create new GPT partition table
>>> 2. Create new partition labeled for LVM with recommended start and end
>>> (+1MiB to last block)
>>> 3. Encrypt the partition with LUKS.
>>> 4. Create physical volume, volume group and a logical volume spanning the
>>> whole partition.
>>> 4. Create EXT4 file system on logical volume.
>>> 6. Create file 'foo' and write to it with:
>>> 
>>> # dd bs=4M if=/dev/urandom of=foo status=progress
>>>> 236059623424 bytes (236 GB, 220 GiB) copied, 13192.2 s, 17.9 MB/s
>>>> dd: error writing 'foo': No space left on device
>>>> 56284+0 records in
>>>> 56283+0 records out
>>>> 236072116224 bytes (236 GB, 220 GiB) copied, 13192.8 s, 17.9 MB/s
>>> 
>>> Have you any suggestions on what I can do?
>> 
>> Return the disk, get a new one. This one is defective.
>> 
>> -dsr-
>> 
>> 
>
> Yeah, it certenly seems so. Thanks for your time!
>
> Regards,
> Albin
>
>

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Installer crash at the end of installation Albin Otterhäll <albinlotterhaell@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 21:40 +0200
  Re: Installer crash at the end of installation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-05-11 21:50 +0200
    Re: Installer crash at the end of installation Albin Otterhäll <gmane@otterhall.com> - 2016-05-12 00:30 +0200
      Re: Installer crash at the end of installation Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-05-12 11:00 +0200

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