[SOLVED] Odd error, maybe something to do with filesystem?

publicus · 2014-01-01 18:00:58

Hi all,

This is my first install of Archlinux. I keep encountering this error message after I write something in the command line:
[ 3430.190253] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 542716

Also, I'm trying to setup my first partition and file system, around this step:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … rage_drive

Now, when I get to this step [ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … partitions ] and mount /dev/sda1, I see my old Ubuntu file system (which I'd like to just nuke from orbit and start over.) Did I do something wrong in order to arrive at this step?

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publicus · 2014-01-01 18:16:08

In case I missed something, how can I nuke _everything_ on my drive and replace it with an ext4 filesystem mounted at / ? I would like to have just one mount point, no /home.

karol · 2014-01-01 18:21:27

Just use one partition. Are you using BIOS or UEFI?

Did you skip https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ilesystems ?

publicus · 2014-01-01 18:28:35

karol wrote:

Just use one partition. Are you using BIOS or UEFI?

I believe it's BIOS, this machine (the one that I'm trying this out on) is about 7 years old.

karol wrote:

Did you skip https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ilesystems ?

No, I did not. I did mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 and this is the result:

[ 5694.510892] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 550204
...
[ 5694.522642] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0xbef0f20
...
zsh: Input/output error: mkfs.ext4

I've cut it down for brevity, I can post the entire contents, but would prefer to do this now (I have to type everything out manually.)

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publicus · 2014-01-01 18:33:48

lol, weird. I fire up cgdisk /dev/sda and this is what I see:

Could not load partitions from '/dev/sda'! Aborting!

Ok... but cfdisk seems to read my drive (and the partitions on it) just fine. Is cfdisk an ok tool for this job?

Trilby · 2014-01-01 18:52:08

Could you post the output of `lsblk`.

publicus · 2014-01-01 19:08:53

Trilby wrote:

Could you post the output of `lsblk`.

Sure:

sda                         8:0    0   55.9G    0 disk
+sda1                       8:1    0   55.9G    0 part
sr0                        11:0    1    522M    0 rom /run/archiso/bootmnt
loop0                       7:0    0  219.2M    1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/root-image
loop1                       7:1    0     1.3G   1 loop
+arch_root-image          254:0    0     1.3G   1 dm   /
loop2                       7:2    0     1.3G   1 loop
+arch_root-image          254:0    0     1.3G   1 dm   /

publicus · 2014-01-01 19:15:15

Ok, I do have some good news. I finally ran mkfs.ext4 and it made the file system as I expected it to, without any sort of IO errors. This required that I reboot the machine and start from scratch. No idea why, maybe one bit was accidentally incorrectly misread?

publicus · 2014-01-01 19:18:24

One more question, what is the mirror score associated with each mirror? I see that the Sri Lanka mirror has the highest and one that's in the US has the lowest. What does that mean?

karol · 2014-01-01 19:23:44

Where did you find said score?

the_shiver · 2014-01-01 19:24:18

prolly there https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

publicus · 2014-01-01 19:31:07

karol wrote:

Where did you find said score?

When I followed this step:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … t_a_mirror

I opened mirrorlist with nano and each mirror had a "score" associated with it.

My version of Archlinux is the latest of this writing.

Inxsible · 2014-01-01 19:52:35

publicus, please look into editing a post rather than posting consecutively.

Can you post your mirrorlist.

publicus · 2014-01-01 19:57:49

Inxsible wrote:

publicus, please look into editing a post rather than posting consecutively.

I will keep this in mind.

Inxsible wrote:

Can you post your mirrorlist.

Not at the moment, to be honest. The list is in a text file on my laptop and I'm typing on my mac, which is a different box completely. After I get everything work I can post it here. However, I imagine that it would be very similar to anyone's mirror list (running archlinux) located in this file: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

karol · 2014-01-01 20:01:53

You can create your mirrorlist in a number of ways, mine currently looks like this:

################################################################################
################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
################################################################################

# With:       reflector -p http -l 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# When:       2014-01-01 13:12:58 UTC
# From:       https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved:  2014-01-01 13:12:50 UTC
# Last Check: 2014-01-01 13:03:26 UTC

Server = http://mirror.de.leaseweb.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.mirror.kangaroot.net/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/Linux/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch

publicus · 2014-01-01 20:08:06

karol wrote:

You can create your mirrorlist in a number of ways, mine currently looks like this:

################################################################################
################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
################################################################################

# With:       reflector -p http -l 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# When:       2014-01-01 13:12:58 UTC
# From:       https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved:  2014-01-01 13:12:50 UTC
# Last Check: 2014-01-01 13:03:26 UTC

Server = http://mirror.de.leaseweb.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.mirror.kangaroot.net/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/Linux/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch

I really don't mind having the default mirror list. I was just wondering why they have a number associated with them.

I do have another question. I have only one partition /dev/sda1. I'd like to keep things silly simple and would. Can I make this partition bootable?

karol · 2014-01-01 20:10:33

Sure, you can - and should - make it bootable. I have a similar setup, one partition is enough :-)

publicus · 2014-01-01 20:14:25

Another oddity.

When I reboot (after done installing), I get this hung step (while it's trying to shutdown):

[ ***  ] A stop job is running for User Manager for 0

What is User Manager for 0?

karol · 2014-01-01 20:16:19

Please search e.g. the forum before posting a question: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171766

publicus · 2014-01-01 20:37:48

karol wrote:

Please search e.g. the forum before posting a question: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171766

Ah, so it's a bug.

The other problem that I have is that when I rebooted, my laptop had a german keyboard layout... I checked /etc/locale.gen and the only uncommented value is en_US.UTF-8. Granted, this is my laptop and the keyboard is not the same as what my desktop has, but it the keys should make correctly. When I do locale, I see _all_ of the values with en_US.UTF-8. I checked /etc/environment and the only thing that that file has is comments. /etc/locale.conf has LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

Am I missing something?

karol · 2014-01-01 20:40:05

What's the output of 'localectl'? Are you using any DE? If you mean the layout in the tty, what's the output of 'cat /etc/vconsole.conf'?

publicus · 2014-01-01 20:47:32

karol wrote:

What's the output of 'localectl'? Are you using any DE? If you mean the layout in the tty, what's the output of 'cat /etc/vconsole.conf'?

Aaaah, I had it set there as de-latin1 for the KEYMAP (vconsole.conf that is.) I changed it to en-latin1. I'll reboot again and let you know if that fixed it.

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publicus · 2014-01-01 23:28:52

Ok, I think I'm all set and have figured most of my installation problems out (at least the basic ones.)

Thanks all!

[edit]

How do I mark this thread "solved"?

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2ManyDogs · 2014-01-01 23:32:06

publicus wrote:

How do I mark this thread "solved"?

Edit the title of your first post.

karol · 2014-01-01 23:33:22

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

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