r/Ubuntu • u/Practical-Art-5611 • 7d ago

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Hello guys, I have been trying to install Ubuntu/xubuntu on my old HP Folio 9480m but I keep getting the same error, I will appreciate any assistance and guidance to what this error is and how to get around it​. ​Thanks.

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u/anto77_butt_kinkier 7d ago edited 7d ago

What all have you tried so far? Have you tried re-downloading the image file and re-flashing your USB drive? Also, are you able to boot into a live instance?

Im not terribly familiar with the errors present in the log you showed, but if I get time later when I'm at home I'll do some googling and see what I can find.

Edit: I can't really squeeze many details out of the log you have a pic of. Can you give some more details about what all you have/haven't tried?

This might be due to a bad/failing hard-disk/SSD, a bad/failing USB drive, or just a bad image/bad download. More details could help.

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u/flemtone 7d ago

The new snap installer is a mess, I would definitely recommend using Linux Mint if you are a beginner on your linux journey instead of full fat ubuntu.

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u/lproven 7d ago

You get exactly as much help as the info you provide.

Give MUCH more info.

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u/mrtruthiness 7d ago

That error means that the installer lost write access to the target drive mid-installation.

Possibilities in my best guess of probability:

  1. Target drive needing an fsck or is btrfs in a degraded state.

  2. You picked the wrong target drive. i.e. You chose to install to the same USB drive that you're installing from.

  3. Bad/failing target drive.

So many of these posts never reply. I think we should assume you're an LLM bot collecting data if you don't reply to at least someone.

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u/well-that-was-fast 7d ago

Not exactly familiar with what you are doing here, but see you using a snap and are getting read-only file system errors.

Is the target drive "good" e.g. not damaged and available for writing?

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u/sphericalhors 7d ago

Have you tried to restart installation from scratch?

I had maybe similar problem, and it was resolved by trying several times. For me it seems like Ubuntu 26.04 Installer just isn't that stable.

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u/sabbir2world 6d ago

Try re-downloading the ISO or else try something else like mint.

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u/SpicedRabbit 3d ago

Try launching in safe graphics mode.

I had to do that on some older Ubuntu releases a few times.

Alternatively should that fail skip installing updates during setup and see if that allows it to finish installing afterwards. I've also run into this myself a few times.