reinstall failing

miisfiit · 2025-06-28 16:42:30

As suggested from my first post i reinatalled arch a few days ago from the main download page using a US mirror site. Well i had said yes to seperat home partition and pretty soon root was filled up. I booted into a live iso of a mini os i had to extend and i think thats where i messed up.

started having issues like pacman unable to install packages randomly and as it was a new install i had no issue starting fresh again but now im stuck. Heres the copy of the log from install...

Process 62 stopped
* thread #1: tid = 62, 0x00007f9363d482d0, name = 'fhost'
frame #0:
Process 62 stopped
* thread #8: tid = 62, 0x00007f942ff6f5b0 fhost`get(path='/81Fn.log') + 27 at fhost.c:139, name = 'fhost/responder', stop reason = invalid address (fault address: 0x30)
frame #0: {3:#018x} fhost`get(path='/81Fn.log') + 27 at fhost.c:139
136 get(SrvContext *ctx, const char *path)
137 {
138 StoredObj *obj = ctx->store->query(shurl_debase(path));
-> 139 switch (obj->type) {
140 case ObjTypeFile:
141 ctx->serve_file_id(obj->id);
142 break;
(lldb) q

this is the third time tryimg to reinstall the other times i went with ext4 file system. Only went with btrfs rhia time to see if possibly it would help get it to inatall and i aalso plan to auto backup my installs to my suse server using btrfs snapshots.

Any help would be much appreciated tgamka everyone

Update: runnimg fdisk -l i noticed my boot is comomg up efi and im on a msi laptop thats only uefi right now. I thought choosimg grub as my boot made it possible to boot into uefi but i believe i might be mistaken

Last edited by miisfiit (2025-06-28 16:57:12)

seth · 2025-06-28 21:11:38

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SMART

i had to extend and i think thats where i messed up.

fdisk -l
lsblk -f

miisfiit · 2025-06-30 05:26:16

thanks! that smart app is pretty slick

seth · 2025-06-30 06:18:46

Do you understand what it says?
Otherwise post the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" and the other tow commands.

foobarDestroyer · 2025-07-08 03:18:34

miisfiit wrote:

yes to seperat home partition and pretty soon root was filled up. I booted into a live iso of a mini os i had to extend and i think thats where i messed up.

I would suggest reading the Arch Wiki pages regarding the reasons (benefits included) behind splitting the home/usr/var/log, etc into separate partitions (there is absolutely nothing wrong with experimenting).

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning

A separate EFI/BIOS (~512MB for a single image partition to be ultra conservative) is fine; using a UKI (unified kernel image) is another layer along with encryption (more passwords/layers = statistically more secure).
A separate platform/Arch partition is potentially beneficial for security (SELinux/RWX permissions differences; plus encryption); a down or up side might be knowing how much space will be used in advance (EG: I only want Nth packages that grow to Y GBs in space + 5% extra allocated for updates over X years before a new repartitioning scheme is called for review).
A separate home partition (per user? Single/Multi-user box? Remote X terminal like the universities of the 1970s?) has many benefits; per user assigned quotas (like a 'guest account') might prevent downloading viruses by means of absolutely 0 free space to write (abnormal security is still security).

All-in-all: I would suggest using an external storage medium and copying any static data that cannot be reproduced (copied/downloaded via the internet) and ensuing in a full reinstall of the platform and only copy the backed up data after everything has been settled.

Last edited by foobarDestroyer (2025-07-08 03:19:39)

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#1 2025-06-28 16:42:30

reinstall failing

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Re: reinstall failing

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