Boot process stuck creating swap on /dev/zram0

[bertez]

Hi,

I'm using archinstall on a semi-old laptop (t480) with a nvme disk... the installation goes smoothly but when I boot the new system it gets stuck creating swap on zram0 (see screenshot below)

I've noticed the following:

• Everything works fine when I set swap to false on archinstall
• There is no boot problem if I install the system on an old msata drive (maybe not related)

Is it possible that the problem is linked to this issue https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1181

Thanks!

[bertez]

Additional testing

-With zram enabled, the system fails 9 out of 10 times to startup. -I attempted to install the system without zram and then installed it, and the problem reappeared.

So, this is most likely not an archinstall issue; I'll keep looking into it and submit on a different bug tracker.

closing this

[Torxed]

Thank you for debugging. A tip might be to add to the kernel boot line: loglevel=7 and see if there's a kernel message that might explain it.

[bertez]

Thanks for your reply. This is the log of a failed boot process:

https://gist.github.com/bertez/1e37b988b72f30e87de70aa1f563c555

I tried a few moments ago to install fedora, which uses zram and it worked fine.

[bertez]

got this response:

https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator/issues/155#issuecomment-1133901164

seems like a conflict with udisks2 ...

[Torxed]

That is strange, I have no recollection of us installing udisk2, has base been using this all the time?

[bertez]

I think udisks2 is a dependency of xfce->thunar->gvfs->udisks2 ...

[Torxed]

Ooh sneaky! ok in that case we need a workaround for xfce. Because profiles will be the last thing that goes in. Which means zram wont know about udisk2 since it gets pulled in later.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I will have a look after i fix some disk issues in master :)

[bertez]

Thank you!