Bug 143837 – Problem installing, error 5 input/output

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description fede 2006-08-13 19:22:15 UTC]

I get this error installing gentoo from the 2006.0 liveCD, i686 using the GTK installer. I follow the installation guide from www.gentoo.org and I didn't put extra packages.

This is part of the log file...


GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 

[Comment 1 fede 2006-08-13 19:22:15 UTC]

I get this error installing gentoo from the 2006.0 liveCD, i686 using the GTK installer. I follow the installation guide from www.gentoo.org and I didn't put extra packages.

This is part of the log file...


GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Config files updated using etc­update. 
make.conf/fstab/rc.conf restored.
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:49 ­ Make.conf configured
GLI: August 13 2006 15:55:50 ­ Chroot environment ready.
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of 
the normal install errors. The error was: '[Errno 5] Input/output error'
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 
165, in run
    self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", 
line 539, in install_portage_tree
    GLIUtility.fetch_and_unpack_tarball(portage_tree_snapshot_uri, self._chroot_dir 
+ "/usr/", self._chroot_dir + "/", cc=self._cc)
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 557, in 
fetch_and_unpack_tarball
    if not get_uri(tarball_uri, temp_directory + "/" + tarball_filename, cc):
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/opt/installer/GLIUtility.py", line 468, in 
get_uri
    shutil.copy(r_file, path)
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 81, in 
copy
    copyfile(src, dst)
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 49, in 
copyfile
    copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 22, in 
copyfileobj
    buf = fsrc.read(length)
GLI: August 13 2006 15:59:16 ­ IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-13 23:14:07 UTC]

Looks like your hard drive is broken. Nothing we could do here, sorry.