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Unable to install; failed to install packages to new root #926

Closed linuxgirl22 closed 4 years ago

linuxgirl22 commented 5 years ago

Hello, and thanks for this great Arch installer. Usually works 100% perfectly. Unfortunately an issue at the moment.

Anarchy version: latest Installation method (VM/Host): full install to hard drive (+ mate mate-extras) System specifications (Processor, GPU, RAM ...): Haswell i7, Radeon R9 255, 16 ram

What actually happened

After updating Anarchy within the installer, and making all choices, including LTS base-devel kernel, nearly everything installs, but it throws an error at the end ... "failed to install packages to new root." Have tried twice, and same result.

btd1337 commented 5 years ago

I had two errors using latest release available.

1) /etc/pacman.conf malformed file as describe here: https://github.com/AnarchyLinux/installer/issues/923

2) Package libreoffice-still-pt-BR not found.

I think that "BR" in uppercase is wrong.

linuxgirl22 commented 5 years ago

I think you're right, particularly about the pacman.conf. Thanks for linking to #923, and, yes, it's impossible to install ... I wouldn't know where to begin with manually messing with the iso/install, even though I'm able to do a proper Arch install (with really good extra notes, lol).

condor2 commented 5 years ago

@btd1337

Update script and try again https://github.com/AnarchyLinux/installer/commit/d0af32259ff496ca2087b20251e696241e7b0330

erazemk commented 5 years ago

@btd1337 The malforming of pacman.conf most likely happens when enabling multilib, where we use a regex. The relevant are configure_base, configure_desktop, configure_quick and configure_system.

I don't know regex and don't have the time to learn it, so if you want, you can check out the files and see which one might be causing the problems.

linuxgirl22 commented 5 years ago

@btd1337 The malforming of pacman.conf most likely happens when enabling multilib, where we use a regex. The relevant are configure_base, configure_desktop, configure_quick and configure_system.

I don't know regex and don't have the time to learn it, so if you want, you can check out the files and see which one might be causing the problems.

Fortunately at this point the Zen installer runs without the issue I opened this thread about, but may I ask if the overall aim has changed to that people maintain the installer themselves? (that's not possible for me/health reasons).

erazemk commented 5 years ago

but may I ask if the overall aim has changed to that people maintain the installer themselves?

No, that was not the aim, but two of us main developers go to university and the third one has a full time job, so we can't spend that much time on Anarchy.

If I have some free time soon, I'll look into the issue but it is not a priority for me, so any outside help is welcome.

linuxgirl22 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for responding. If it's not a priority that the installer works, there's other things.

jmurph22 commented 5 years ago

For me it fails on yay. I don't recall an option to not use yay.

erazemk commented 5 years ago

For me it fails on yay. I don't recall an option to not use yay.

It depends on which packages you install. Some packages (e.g. icons) are only available from the AUR, so yay gets installed automatically.

If you get an error between pacman and yay, re-download the latest iso and try again, it was already fixed a some time ago and reuploaded.

btd1337 commented 5 years ago

@condor2 I used the "stable" version 1.0.8, I believe everyone does the same. In it the error is present. A new version with patches that do not require user intervention should be released.

erazemk commented 5 years ago

@condor2 I used the "stable" version 1.0.8, I believe everyone does the same. In it the error is present. A new version with patches that do not require user intervention should be released.

Have you updated Anarchy (anarchy -u), like he said to? He is referring to a commit, which gets applied by updating. This is so we don't have to release a new iso for every commit.

linuxgirl22 commented 5 years ago

I'd used the updated iso, and updated within install, twice, and still it failed. The Zen installer doesn't force use of yay, and succeeds at install. All this needs is the option to choose whether to install yay or not, or to choose a different helper. It was either a recent pacman and/or pamac update needed yay removed, in order to update system correctly. The point of whatever reason people need to use an arch install helper is to not need to correct structural issues such as this. This was working great, before the pacman/pamac updates and yay issues. If it could be fixed, that would be awesome.

erazemk commented 5 years ago

The thing is, a new 1.0.8 iso was released that fixed the problem, which leads me to believe that you have an older version of 1.0.8. Try re-downloading 1.0.8 and try again, if it doesn't work, I'll look into it when I have the time.

condor2 commented 5 years ago

Tested now with customized xfce, kernel LTS and there is no issue with yay.

You mean zen kernel?

LE, Tested with Zen kernel, no issue. Better post a screenshot, logs..

linuxgirl22 commented 5 years ago

The thing is, a new 1.0.8 iso was released that fixed the problem, which leads me to believe that you have an older version of 1.0.8. Try re-downloading 1.0.8 and try again, if it doesn't work, I'll look into it when I have the time.

Thanks for responding. I'm pretty sure it was the latest, as I downloaded it freshly a day before beginning this thread, around Nov 7th, but I'll try it again when I have time and post back.

btd1337 commented 5 years ago

@erazemkokot By default, a release should be working minimally without any errors or requiring user action, as they often do not master these details.

So a commit that makes the installer "work" should not be treated as any commit.

erazemk commented 4 years ago

@btd1337 As you already know, Arch isn't a distro that holds your hand when installing it. So we too expect our users to be at least aware that they have to update the installer, because we can't afford (time-wise) to publish a new release for every commit. And I don't agree with your statement when talking about Anarchy or Arch though, Since Arch is a rolling distro we can't know what changes will be implemented and problems, like the recent yay vs pacman thing can't be predicted. So the only thing we can do is update a release (which we did with 1.0.8). Like you can see above, Condor tested the new release and the issue was not reproducible, so there isn't much we can do. But do know that I understand your frustration and we do try to release our images as bug-free as possible.

If you have the time, you can check the files I listed above and try to update the regex to see if that fixes the problem on your end and then submit a pull request with the fix.

Feinzer commented 4 years ago

I'd like to report that I am also having this issue. I downloaded the latest iso from releases and just to be sure I also ran anarchy -u before starting the installer.

I personally selected arch-base kernel with clean KDE, multilib, os-prober and no additional software. it throws a "failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)"

I tried editing the anarchy.conf and removed yay but it didn't fix it, I checked the log and no error was shown, it was just downloading and threw the same error.

erazemk commented 4 years ago

Closing since the issue appears to be fixed in 1.0.9.