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trying to do net install today and during the install after you do the configurations i get the following message:
STARTING MKINITCPIO , Executing chroot /mnt /sbin/mkinitcpio -p linux >>/var/log/aif/mkinitcpio.log 2>&1\n
chroot: failed to run command '/sbin/mkinicpio' : No such file or directory.
This happens every time since 4/12, i've tried on 2 machines, one intell, one amd, and i've tried using different mirrors for net install.
going to try local core install and see what that gets me.
Last edited by Mert7 (2012-04-13 08:35:12)
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I have the same issue, it would appear that mkinicpio is not in sbin, I carried on with the install, then on first boot ran
mkinitcpio -p linuxSeemed to fix the issue, however I'm sure this bug will get fixed
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wow, such a simple thing to do.
I was having a nightmare with the core install involving file conflicts and pacman keyring and .... well thats in the past.
I guess with a better understanding of what mkinitpcio really is the problem does not seem all that bad and it turns out to be easy to fix.
I was on my way to using wget and pacman -U to install the older version while logged into tty2 during the install process when I noticed you replied.
Thanks so much, I can sleep easy now
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Actually, scrap what I said, I've got issues with a clean install of Arch and KDE, networkmanager is on DEAMONS, it says its started but the KDE applet says it isn't
Not sure if this is tied to mkinitcpio
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Me again
My working Arch KDE box has mkinitcpio 0.8.6-2, I see that the latest is 0.8.7-1, I can only assume it's broken
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Found a workaround
Continue with your install but do not reboot, whilst still in the live environment run
cd /mnt
mount -t proc proc proc/
mount -t sysfs sys sys/
mount -o bind /dev dev/
mkinitcpio -p linuxThen reboot
Last edited by vassie (2012-04-13 14:15:14)
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Actually the new PKGBUILD for mkinicpio does not create a symlink in /sbin/ for /usr/bin/mkinitcpio:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … a972450169
- # compat symlink
- install -dm755 "$pkgdir/sbin"
- ln -s /usr/bin/mkinitcpio "$pkgdir/sbin/mkinitcpio"It may be an error, or if it is on purpose, the installer has to be updated too.
Last edited by zebulon (2012-04-13 14:36:07)
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Found a workaround
Continue with your install but do not reboot, whilst still in the live environment run
cd /mnt mount -t proc proc proc/ mount -t sysfs sys sys/ mount -o bind /dev dev/ mkinitcpio -p linuxThen reboot
You need to do a "chroot ." before executing mkinitcpio.
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Alternatively, after installing the base packages (between step 6 and step 7), you can switch to another console, login as root and do:
cd /mnt/sbin
ln -s ../usr/bin/mkinitcpio .Offline
Alternatively, after installing the base packages (between step 6 and step 7), you can switch to another console, login as root and do:
cd /mnt/sbin ln -s ../usr/bin/mkinitcpio .
Thanks zebulon
I plan on re-installing Arch on my laptop this weekend, I'll try that should the installer not be fixed by then
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Alternatively, after installing the base packages (between step 6 and step 7), you can switch to another console, login as root and do:
cd /mnt/sbin ln -s ../usr/bin/mkinitcpio .
ok just to be clear, i tend to take cli instruction verbatim, so when i did it, that last dot, made it not work, it just turned up what i said in original post, so i had to do it again.
# cd /mnt/sbin
# ln -s ../usr/bin/mkinitcpio no errors ^_^
so now i'll move on to my gui but i think every is nice now.
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I was having this same problem and creating the above mentioned symlink was the solution. Thank you.
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