[15:04] <bdmurray> How bad sectors does it take to make an installation failure?
[15:05] <bdmurray> bug 879662
[15:05] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 879662 in ubiquity "installer crashed with IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/target/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d' during system installation" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/879662
[15:06] <cjwatson> if the kernel can't read it you lose
[15:07] <cjwatson> (or write to it, depending on what we're talking about)
[15:07] <bdmurray> well that one has 2 bad sectors but I've seen other messages where it says something along the lines of a hopeless number
[15:07] <cjwatson> this should all be lower-level than the installer; if the installer has to concern itself with bad sector count then the system is hopelessly fucked
[15:07] <cjwatson> if you'll pardon the phrase
[15:08] <cjwatson> ntfsresize isn't directly relevant; it may be indicative
[15:10] <cjwatson> the kernel hasn't logged anything directly about the cause of the error, so it's hard to tell
[15:11] <cjwatson> it's possible that it copied bad data from the CD and didn't realise it, or that it read/wrote bad data to/from the hard disk and didn't realise it
[15:11] <cjwatson> although that is Not Supposed To Be Able To Happen
[17:03] <bdmurray> wasn't there a recent bug like bug 388060?
[17:03] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 388060 in casper "netboot insall of live cd results in a manual network interface configuration" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/388060