[SOLVED] Error after error after error.

DSpider · 2009-08-25 14:35:39

Here's my partitioning scheme:

3.0 GB - NFTS - Windows XP Pro ()
1.0 GB - swap
5.0 GB - ext4 - /
28+ GB - ext 4 - /home

So here's my problem. For the install I'm using "archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.img" from a 4 GB USB flash drive wrote from within Parted Magic (a LiveUSB distribution). I wrote it with:

dd bs=8M if=/tralalalala....lala/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.img of=/dev/sda

Booted ok. So far so good.

Used pppoe-setup, entered everything accurately and ping -c 3 www.google.com returned ping results.

/arch/setup

From the manual assignments I got these errors, one after another, in the center of the screen with an Ok button:

Error mounting
/dev/sda3 on /mnt
Error mounting
/dev/sda4 on /mnt/home
Error activating swap:
swapon /dev/sda2
Partitions were
successfully created.

"Installation complete" and right after:

error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
ERROR: Could not unmount /mnt/proc
[error@archiso ~]# _

Then came the funny part:

[root@archiso ~]# reboot
-bash: reboot: command not found .....lol ??

Then I figured I try my luck again by pressing alt+ctrl+del for the TERM signal:

INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/shutdown"

....had to keep the power button pressed to turn off the computer. I've never seen so many errors for a Linux distribution. What am I doing wrong ? Tried creating the partitions from Parted Magic, and from the intergrated partitioning tool. Same thing. So what am I doing wrong ? What am I NOT doing ?

Thank you.

Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-27 12:49:37)

oopsicrappe · 2009-08-25 20:51:33

What happens if you try "mount /dev/sda3 /mnt" before starting the installer?

DSpider · 2009-08-25 21:21:28

Haven't thought of it.

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
swapon /dev/sda2

?

Hmmmm... Should I start with the swap partition first ? Does it matter ?

Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-25 21:27:53)

DSpider · 2009-08-25 22:21:03

This time I chose "Boot Arch Linux Live CD [Legacy IDE, no SATA]" from the menu. I thought maybe THAT was the problem (only been choosing the first option 'til now).

initrd /boot/archiso_ide.img...

After pppoe-setup and ping -c 3 www.google.com worked, I tried:

[root@archiso ~]# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@archiso ~]# _

Then I figured it sees my HDD as hda NOT sda.

[root@archiso ~]# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt
[root@archiso ~]# mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/home
mount: mount point /mnt/home does not exist
[root@archiso ~]# _

swapon worked... I think. Well, it didn't pop any errors so I ASSUME it did.

Now comes another fun part !

/arch/setup

The menu asked me for a partition scheme, I tried to choose them, naturally poped another error or two like the ones from above:

Error mounting
/dev/sda3 on /mnt

Error mounting
/dev/sda4 on /mnt/home

Error activating swap:
swapon /dev/sda2

Partitions were
successfully created.

Started downloading...

...
downloading licenses-2.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz...
downloading logrotate-3.7.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz...
do_IRQ: 0.229 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

I'm stumped. This is definitely the worst install process I've ever been through.

It asked for a mirror, I chose "mirror.archlinux.ro". Could that be the problem ?

This was my eleventh attempt to install Arch Linux. Maybe lucky number 13 will go through. Maybe.

Edit: Maybe it's because I chose "1" when prompted for a firewall ? Wonder if it works with 0... GOD !! Starting to think maybe Arch isn't a good choice for me.

Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-25 23:00:01)

oopsicrappe · 2009-08-26 00:10:32

While, it appears the kernel is using the old ide-disk drivers (which list drives as hd*) rather than the newer libata drivers (which show up as sd*), but the installer is assuming the drive is sda. I would guess it's a bug in the installer. You should probably file a bug report.
It would also be helpful if you post the output of lsmod and lspci, in case you are using some obscure ide controller that is supported by ide-disk but not libata.

DSpider · 2009-08-26 09:27:19

root@PartedMagic:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A ISA bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP2A SMBus (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2S AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP2A IDE (rev a3)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)
root@PartedMagic:~# _


root@PartedMagic:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_seq_oss            21076  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      3672  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                33280  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          4064  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            27860  0 
snd_mixer_oss          11288  1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6                  182124  12 
nfsd                  191236  8 
auth_rpcgss            26716  1 nfsd
8139too                16860  0 
8139cp                 14476  0 
snd_intel8x0           20632  1 
mii                     2924  2 8139too,8139cp
snd_ac97_codec         68816  1 snd_intel8x0
ppdev                   5724  0 
epl                   126276  0 
ac97_bus                 884  1 snd_ac97_codec
rtc_cmos                7424  0 
serio_raw               3768  0 
shpchp                 23640  0 
sg                     19336  0 
psmouse                30932  0 
thermal                 9668  0 
processor              29220  0 
nvidia_agp              4936  1 
parport_pc             17056  0 
rtc_core               11372  1 rtc_cmos
thermal_sys            10068  2 thermal,processor
agpgart                20972  1 nvidia_agp
rtc_lib                 1472  1 rtc_core
floppy                 39820  0 
hwmon                   1416  1 thermal_sys
evdev                   7208  3 
i2c_nforce2             5212  0 
parport                23060  2 ppdev,parport_pc
root@PartedMagic:~# _

I used Parted Magic for this one because I don't know how to output to a text file from a console. I figured it reads hardware IDs and since my PC is fairly old... the output would probably be the same in Arch.

Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-26 13:04:06)

DSpider · 2009-08-26 13:35:01

Pacman preparation failed!
Check /dev/tty7 for errors.
Ok

And:

STARTING pacman_installpkg . Executing pacman --root /mnt --confing /tmp/pa
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
if you're sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /mnt/var/lib/pacman/db.lock
Package Installation Complete
Continue

And:

chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
chroot: cannot run command 'passwd': No such file or directory
...
Only ctrl+alt+del would work.

I'm so fucking sick of changing my BIOS settings every time I start my PC. Please, PLEASE point me to an install tutorial other than the Beginers Guide. I'm sure it's somehow my fault. Or is the .img file different from the .iso ?

Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-26 13:35:57)

DSpider · 2009-08-27 12:51:57

Here's the link: http://forums.partedmagic.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=520

In case the Parted Magic forums are down, DSpider wrote:

I used the latest version of Parted Magic to partition my 5 yo 40 GB Maxtor HDD.
- created a 3 GB NTFS partition using Parted Magic 4.0
- installed Windows XP, used the integrated "Disk Management" tool to partition the rest
- used Parted Magic 4.4 to delete the second partition and create 3 Linux primary partitions as following:
sda 2: 1 GB swap
sda 3: 5 GB ext4 for /
sda 4: 28.6X GB ext4 for /home
...and that's what cfdisk said when I tried to install Arch Linux. Been scratching my head for the last couple of days trying to figure out why it wouldn't mount the friggin' sda4 partition.
Anyway. I solved it by deleting the last partition from Parted Magic (sda4) and creating one with cfdisk. After slapping ext4 on it it magically mounted. Go figure, huh ?
"cfdisk" came with the latest Arch Linux release (2008.8). Maybe it's a bug of some sort ?

PS: I used "archlinux-2009.08-core-i686.img".

Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-27 13:02:27)

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#1 2009-08-25 14:35:39

[SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#2 2009-08-25 20:51:33

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#3 2009-08-25 21:21:28

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#4 2009-08-25 22:21:03

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#5 2009-08-26 00:10:32

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#6 2009-08-26 09:27:19

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#7 2009-08-26 13:35:01

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

#8 2009-08-27 12:51:57

Re: [SOLVED] Error after error after error.

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