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klepes

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Registered: 2023-12-17

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problems with watchdog and pacman/pacstrap in installation???

hello,
ive been using arch for some months and i tried doing a fresh install today i connect to my wifi, partition my drive, i format my partitions and i mount my partitions however maybe 5(?) minutes after mounting i get this error:
[ 1580.025750 ] systemd-journald[197]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Connection refused
[ 1650.025699 ] systemd-journald[197]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected

also i cant install anything with pacman or pacstrap as it shows me these errors:
error: could not open file: /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
error: could not determine filesystem mount points
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

ive installed arch more than 5 times on laptops, usb sticks vms and ive never encountered these issues and i really dont understand why this is happening

if i havent rtfm'd correctly let me know!

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: problems with watchdog and pacman/pacstrap in installation???

i mount my partitions

Please provide the exact, full commands used. Vague descriptions don't really help.

Did you check the output of `findmnt` after the error message?

/etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts so that suggests the API filesystems were not (bind) mounted before entering the chroot. Did you use `arch-chroot`?

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klepes

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Registered: 2023-12-17

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Re: problems with watchdog and pacman/pacstrap in installation???

i mount my partitions

Please provide the exact, full commands used. Vague descriptions don't really help.
the chroot. Did you use `arch-chroot`?

1. here are the commands i did to mount all my partitions
mount --mkdir /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt (root partition)
mount /dev/sdb4 / (home partition)

I think the root partition wasnt mounted properly after thinking about it maybe that is the problem or maybe should i have done /mnt/home??

2. yes i did use arch-chroot

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: problems with watchdog and pacman/pacstrap in installation???

1. here are the commands i did to mount all my partitions
mount --mkdir /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt (root partition)
mount /dev/sdb4 / (home partition)

Read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … le_systems

And pay very careful attention to the order in which the partitions should be mounted, and where they should be mounted.