Comment 87 for bug 365881

By clicking through the error message several time the installer started
and now I'm a happy camper as Ubuntu 11.04 is installed and running. I
updated to 11.10 and found that it is not user friendly for me. I
un-installed the 11.10 version and re-installed 11.04 which is clear, clean
and works very nice.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:55 AM, David Boden <email address hidden>wrote:

> Same "No disk in drive" issue for by Dell Studio XPS desktop. Windows 7
> 64-bit. Again, it has a built in memory stick / SDCARD reader.
>
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> Title:
> wubi installer's pyrun.exe says "no disk"
>
> Status in Wubi, Windows Ubuntu Installer:
> New
> Status in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The issue i'm having is with the initial installation.
>
> I run Windows XP Home Edition on an HP Pavilion a656x with an added
> video card and an added stick of memory. It has two optical drives,
> drive E (a DVD/CD drive) and drive F (a CD drive).
>
> Here is what happens...
>
> 1. I boot into Windows XP
> 2. I insert the Ubuntu 9.04 CD into drive E
> 3. I get a pop-up message window (from pyrun.exe) telling me that there
> is no disk in drive F
> 4. My options are Cancel, Try Again, and Continue and the "X" to close
> the little window
> 5. no matter what i click, the error message just pops back up.
>
> if I put the CD in the Drive F, then everything happens exactly the
> same except that in step 3, the message informs me there is no disk in
> drive E.
>
> So, whichever of my two drives i insert the CD into, the installer
> complains that i don't have a disk in the OTHER drive.
>
> In Ubuntu 8.10 (which I no longer have installed on my system), after
> I inserted the CD, I would simply get a pop-up that presented 3
> installation options (and I want to choose the 2nd one: install inside
> windows)....in Ubuntu 9.04, if i keep clicking the various buttons
> randomly like 50 times (Cancel, Try Again, Continue, and the little
> close "X")...I will eventually get the installation options.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> UPDATE:
> I am the author of this bug report, which I reported in april 2009. It is
> now January 2010, and I have decided to sum up the issue and the work
> around so people won't read the first 5 or 6 posts and misunderstand the
> issue. I am still getting email notifications; so, apparently this is
> still a problem.
>
> APPARENT CAUSE:
> This issue appears to be due to the wubi installer being ported to python
> from its original language; therefore, if i remember correctly, this
> problem will only be seen on wubi 9.04 and later. Wubi (and possibly python
> itself) has problems dealing elegantly with empty data storage devices in
> certain instances. Wubi scans all drives on your system a certain number of
> times during the installation process. Every time it scans through the
> drives and encounters one it does not know how to deal with, it produces
> this error. If you click through it, wubi moves on to the next drive.
>
> WHAT TO EXPECT:
> It feels like an infinite loop or like windows must be rebooted, but, it
> is nothing so serious. Wubi scans the through all drives several times
> during the installation process and produces this error message any time it
> encounters a drive it doesn't understand. If you click the error message,
> wubi simply scans the next drive. If you keep clicking through the error
> message, wubi will eventually have scanned all the drives and move on.
>
> For example, my computer had a card reader with 4 slots. Each slot was
> considered a drive and each slot produced an error. Wubi scanned my
> drives 3 times during the installation, so I had to click through the
> error message a total of 12 times.
>
> POSSIBLE PROBLEM DEVICES:
> - card readers (usually each slot will produce the error)
> - empty CD or DVD drives (not all people experience issues with
> these...my CD and DVD drive did not produce any errors)
> - virtual drives
> - drives assigned non-ascii drive letter
>
> MORE ABOUT DEVICES:
> - built-in card readers appear to be the most commonly reported problem
> device
> - on the ubuntu forums, I have read that someone had this issue due to an
> attached cell phone
> - some printers, keyboards, or monitors can have a built-in card
> reader...don't forget to check that
>
> WORKAROUND (TEMPORARY SOLUTION):
> 1. Eject the problem devices, OR...
> 2. Click through the error messages -- it is not an infinite loop, you
> will get one error message per problem device each time wubi scans the
> drives.
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