Can’t mount /boot on boot

seth · 2023-01-17 21:10:51

Edit the pacman.conf of the install iso and enable the [multilib] repo.

Edit:
you can also try

pacman --sysroot /mnt -Qqn | pacman --sysroot /mnt -S -

but I suspenct that it will throw a lot of errors and fail.

Last edited by seth (2023-01-17 21:12:04)

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-17 21:20:10

I enabled the multilib repo and am now crossing my fingers hoping it works while it downloads

Edit: I am now getting 404 errors from what I think is the community repos

Last edited by Lebellelenous (2023-01-17 21:47:15)

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-17 22:49:58

seth wrote:

No, since you'll likely be doing this from the install iso, you'll have to use
pacman --root /mnt -Qqn | pacman --root /mnt --cachedir /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -S -

After fixing the 404 errors I am not getting a failed retrieving file: Maximum file size exceeded

Edit: I made pacman use xfer as per a Reddit thread and while it is going slower that molasses it does seem to be going without an issue

Last edited by Lebellelenous (2023-01-17 23:18:08)

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 16:53:55

Lebellelenous wrote:

seth wrote:
No, since you'll likely be doing this from the install iso, you'll have to use
pacman --root /mnt -Qqn | pacman --root /mnt --cachedir /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -S -
After fixing the 404 errors I am not getting a failed retrieving file: Maximum file size exceeded
Edit: I made pacman use xfer as per a Reddit thread and while it is going slower that molasses it does seem to be going without an issue

I’m now getting errors about file dependancies, do I solve this by removing the conflicting files or is this special?

seth · 2023-01-18 17:20:09

"errors about file dependancies" are not a thing - there're untracked files in the way or unresolved package dependencies.
We'll need to see the exact error (or at least a representative example)

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 18:26:14

I’m not at my computer atm, but isn’t there a way to force pacman to ignore dependancies (I wouldn’t do it but just asking)

seth · 2023-01-18 18:30:49

Yes: https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/pacman/pacman.8.en
But from your description it's not even clear what problem you're facing right now.
Don't wing this, you'll likely make things worse.

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 18:33:28

I wasn’t planning on winging it lol, don’t want to break my system anymore

What I can remember about the errors is that it was xfce4 and xorg conflicting with something, I can’t remember what, if that helps

seth · 2023-01-18 18:40:46

There's perhaps a package from the AUR and you're running into a version conflict.
We'll have to see the actual error.

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 19:38:08

seth wrote:

We'll need to see the exact error (or at least a representative example)

It’s saying a bunch of files exist in the filesystem, do I just go through and remove these files?

V1del · 2023-01-18 19:40:43

That's not "the exact error". Post exactly what you see there's no telling whether you'd make things worse.

seth · 2023-01-18 19:40:49

I don't know.

seth two times before wrote:

We'll have to see the actual error.

This might just be the mtree of one package being broken or some "sudo pip" incident or god knows what.

Trilby · 2023-01-18 19:42:27

Okay okay, I give - which one of you is Abbot and which one is Costello? Who's on first? What's the actual error message? I don't know!

Post the actual verbatim error message.

(edit: doubly too slow)

Last edited by Trilby (2023-01-18 19:42:53)

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 19:44:41

It says

Error: failed to commit transactions

Xorg-server-common: /mnt/var/lib/xkb/README.compiled exists in filesystem
It names tracker3-miners, powerdevil, and xfce4 settings in the same way with their respective paths

seth · 2023-01-18 19:46:52

pacman --root /mnt -Qqn | pacman --root /mnt --cachedir /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -S - 2>&1 | tee /tmp/theactual.errors
cat /tmp/theactual.errors | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 19:49:03

Is there a way to skip the actual downloading process of that command, I ask because I had to switch to curl to avoid timeout issues as per another forum thread and it’s 15 gb of downloads on my 3mbps internet

seth · 2023-01-18 19:56:48

If you were using /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg and did not clean the cache or delete the packages otherwise, you won't have to download that many (if any) packages.
And you'll not be able to fix this w/o having the package to replace the broken installation.

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 20:02:37

So I checked the cache at /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg
And they all show up but they’re red, is this just colors or do they indicate like corrupted packages and that’s why it downloads every time

seth · 2023-01-18 20:05:35

"man dircolors" - red is probably for compressed files.
What did you configure for the xfer command?

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 20:06:27

The very top one in /etc/pacman.conf for the install iso

seth · 2023-01-18 20:08:04

Stop paraphrasing.
Seriously.

If you're unwilling or unable to provide direct answers, this won't go anywhere.

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 20:09:49

I uncommented line 19 in /etc/pacman.conf

seth · 2023-01-18 20:10:48

'key I'm out.
This is clearly a prank.

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 20:15:55

I uncommented the line that goes:
Xfer Command: /use/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u

Edit: in /etc/pacman.conf, not /mnt/etc/pacman.conf

Last edited by Lebellelenous (2023-01-18 20:16:30)

Lebellelenous · 2023-01-18 20:34:46

seth wrote:

I don't know.
seth two times before wrote:
We'll have to see the actual error.
This might just be the mtree of one package being broken or some "sudo pip" incident or god knows what.

I finally managed to used the cache instead of downloading by using pacman -U,
Here’s the dependencies error:
https://paste.c-net.org/WeightStrung

Last edited by Lebellelenous (2023-01-18 20:36:39)

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