Comment 214 for bug 445852

(Ref Post #183)

This bug gave me hell this weekend.

I had 9.10 running fine all month with remix.

I decided to nuke my netbook & later put 9.10 back on.

Upon installing 9.10 I forgot the timing of post #147. I finished the installation & was confronted with HSM Violations (again)

After the install i attempted the fix in post #188. That fix did not work. Attempting to undo 188 i was confronted with the inability of writing to the disk (save) - i could not undo the changes.

I decided to do another install this time not forgetting to apply 147 prior to re-boot. I was then unable to finish any installation normally. (aka never got to that point)

Installations would hang @ 38% (copying files iirc) & i noticed the HD/LED light
would begin flashing in a timed (1/2 sec per) fashion. I'd tried 3 installs partitioning (even slightly diff sizes) & formatting - Nothing made a difference.

I'd also tried the dd command (post 147) in between - but i don't think i did it correctly as it only took about 7-10 minutes (on 8GB). - I believe i'd ran it on a partition instead of disk.

Later on i noticed hitting the power button (@ the 38% hang) dropped me to a screen that displayed **The machine was in an infinite loop of HSM violation errors** (over & over & over)- In sync with the flashing HD light.

It seemed regardless of post #147 - the bug effects the machine earlier than that. That or the bug had still been dragging along all this time.

I'd tried using a separate gparted livecd to format & partition & it made no difference on installations failing.

Literally a day later i ran the dd command again (post 147) this time correctly & it took about 1.5 hours. (i ran it from 8.04 live/cd)

I had a feeling things would then go differently & they did. I managed to get 9.10 installed - HOWEVER i did still receive a disk utility crash (i believe during formatting - it's difficult to tell when it occurs because all it does is put a small red icon in the task bar) - I believe i put in #147 correctly (hell i'd done it before)

So i am thinking 'finally' this has been dealt with.

Wrong.

After installation i realized for some reason i'm unable to install any packages or updates. Seemingly anything. It seemed i could write to the disk OK but reading/installing packages/updates resulted in input/output errors displayed in the terminal/details.

I battled with this for a while but then i just gave up. F'it.

I'm willing to put 4-6 hours in but once it starts pushing beyond that people just can't be expected to deal with this. I was quite angry by the time i gave up & i am still a bit disgusted with this. No doubt that i've spent 8 or more hours in some way dealing with this problem.

I am not pleased upon hearing there's no fix in Lucid.

If the difference between getting a patch worked on & not is me packing up my netbook and shipping it off then i might be willing. I am a fairly loyal eee pc fan/user - when i think of netbook i think 'eee pc'.

What's bothersome is the apparent netbook remix edition. What part of netbook didn't include EEE PCs?