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Carbon2048

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Registered: 2015-08-25

Posts: 1

Disk I/O Error on Installation

I wiped two of my machines and wanted to re-install Arch Linux on them.

I created an installation disk off a flash drive, booted from it, and entered:

    wifi-menu, authenticates fine...

    pacman -Syu

After the operation completes my terminal starts getting spammed with i/o errors:

    660.8730071 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 557429
    660.XXXXXX EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_wait_block_bitmap:493 comm kworker/u16
    660.XXXXXX EXT4-fs (dm-0): previous I/O error to superblock detected
    660.XXXXXX Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 0, lost sync page write
    660.XXXXXX EXT4-fs (dm-0): Delayed block allocation failed for inocde 26XXXX
    660.XXXXXX EXT4-fs (dm-0): This should not happen!! Data will be lost

    660.XXXXXX Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block XXXXXX, lost aync page write
    660.XXXXXX Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block XXXXXX, lost aync page write
    660.XXXXXX Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block XXXXXX, lost aync page write
    660.XXXXXX Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block XXXXXX, lost aync page write

At this point I can't proceed, I attempt to "pacman -S git" and get similar disk I/O errors as above.

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I have the same problem on both 2 separates machines.

I don't think my installation media is the problem because I:
    Tried making both installation CDs and a flash drive / USB - same issue.
    Tried the arch ISO downloaded from multiple different mirrors
    Fully tested the flash drive read/write, 0 detected bad sectors

I also don't think my HDDs are the problem because:
    They were working fine up until I wiped them with DBAN.
    DBAN fully wiped the disks 3 times, 0 detected hardware problems
    Installed Windows on one of the disks after having this issue and it worked fine.

So I'm really lost here, as to what I might be doing wrong, and why the problem affect two completely separate machines.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Disk I/O Error on Installation

You don't reinstall Arch from the live ISO with 'pacman -Syu'.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide (or /root/install.txt in the running system).

The errors result from the updates filling up the overlayfs.

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