Cannot install because of package conflict between exfatprogs and exfat-utils

General system EndeavourOS installation
1

Hi!

I downloaded and “burned” into a USB drive the ISO EndeavourOS_Artemis_nova_22_9.iso, however, I’m unable to run the installation succesfuly because a package conflict between exfatprogs and exfat-utils:

2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Starting job "modify 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook on host and chroot" ( 9 / 40 ) 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "mkdir -p /etc/pacman.d/hooks/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /etc/calamares/scripts/90-mkinitcpio-install.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "mkdir -p /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /etc/calamares/scripts/mkinitcpio-install-calamares /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "chmod +x /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio-install-calamares") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "mkdir -p /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/etc/pacman.d/hooks/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /etc/calamares/scripts/90-mkinitcpio-install.hook /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/etc/pacman.d/hooks/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Starting job "inicializar pacman ... ranking mirrors ... copiar pacman mirrorlist y llavero al objetivo ..." ( 10 / 40 ) 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:48 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "pacman -Sy --noconfirm archlinux-keyring endeavouros-keyring") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:52 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "chmod +x /etc/calamares/scripts/create-pacman-keyring") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:52 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "bash /etc/calamares/scripts/create-pacman-keyring") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:54 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "bash /etc/calamares/scripts/update-mirrorlist") 
2022-11-01 - 15:24:54 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "eos-rankmirrors") 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:05 [6]: QML Component (default slideshow) Next slide
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /etc/pacman.d/endeavouros-mirrorlist /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/etc/pacman.d/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/etc/pacman.d/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp -a /etc/pacman.d/gnupg /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/etc/pacman.d/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]:     .. Running ("/bin/sh", "-c", "cp /etc/resolv.conf /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v/etc/") 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Starting job "pacstrap" ( 11 / 40 ) 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]: virtual Calamares::JobResult Calamares::PythonJob::exec()
    Job file "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/pacstrap/main.py" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: Found gettext "es" in "/usr/share/locale/es" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]:     .. Job description from pretty_name "pacstrap" = "Install base system" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:07 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: ==> Creating install root at /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: ==> Installing packages to /tmp/calamares-root-f8mnb03v" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: Synchronizing package databases..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: endeavouros downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: core downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: extra downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: community downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:08 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: multilib downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:09 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: iptables-nft-1:1.8.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:09 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: downgrading package base (3-2 => 3-1)" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: There are 26 members in group base-devel:" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: Repository core" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: 1) archlinux-keyring  2) autoconf  3) automake  4) binutils  5) bison  6) debugedit  7) fakeroot  8) file  9) findutils  10) flex  11) gawk  12) gcc  13) gettext  14) grep  15) groff  16) gzip  17) libtool  18) m4  19) make  20) pacman  21) patch  22) pkgconf  23) sed  24) sudo  25) texinfo  26) which" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: Enter a selection (default=all): warning: archlinux-keyring-20220927-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: autoconf-2.71-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: automake-1.16.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: binutils-2.39-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: bison-3.8.2-4 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: debugedit-5.0-4 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: fakeroot-1.29-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: file-5.43-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: findutils-4.9.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: flex-2.6.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: gawk-5.2.0-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: gcc-12.2.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: grep-3.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: groff-1.22.4-7 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: gzip-1.12-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: libtool-2.4.7-5 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: m4-1.4.19-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: make-4.3-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: downgrading package pacman (6.0.2-1 => 6.0.1-8)" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: patch-2.7.6-8 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: pkgconf-1.8.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: sed-4.8-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: texinfo-6.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: which-2.21-5 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: cryptsetup-2.5.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: device-mapper-2.03.16-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: diffutils-3.8-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: dosfstools-4.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: e2fsprogs-1.46.5-4 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: efibootmgr-18-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: f2fs-tools-1.15.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: inetutils-2.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: jfsutils-1.1.15-8 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: less-1:608-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: linux-firmware-20220913.f09bebf-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: logrotate-3.20.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: lsb-release-2.0.r48.3cf5103-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: lvm2-2.03.16-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: mdadm-4.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: mkinitcpio-busybox-1.35.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: mkinitcpio-openswap-0.1.0-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: nano-6.4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: netctl-1.28-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: os-prober-1.81-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: perl-5.36.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: reiserfsprogs-3.6.27-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: s-nail-14.9.24-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: sysfsutils-2.1.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: usbutils-014-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:10 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: resolving dependencies..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: looking for conflicting packages..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: exfatprogs and exfat-utils are in conflict. Remove exfat-utils? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: exfatprogs and exfat-utils are in conflict" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Skipping non-emergency job "Generar el identificador único de máquina." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "fstab" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurar uso horario a America/Costa_Rica" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurar modelo de teclado a pc105, distribución a us-" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "localecfg" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job " " 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "packages" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurando archivo de claves LUKS." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurando la memoria de intercambio («swap») cifrada." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "initcpiocfg" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Creando el «initramfs» con «mkinitcpio»." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurar usuarios <pre>sudo</pre> ." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Preparando grupos." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Crear el usuario jorge" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Definir contraseña para el usuario jorge." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Definir contraseña para el usuario root." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Hostname: lightyear-artemis" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "networkcfg" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "displaymanager" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "hwclock" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "grubcfg" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "bootloader" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "eos_script" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "eos_script" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "reset 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "services-systemd" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Guardando archivos para más tarde..." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "copy logs and files from host to target" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Desmontar los sistemas de archivos." 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
    ERROR: Installation failed: "Failed to run pacstrap" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     .. - message: "Failed to run pacstrap" 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]:     .. - details: Failed to run pacman
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
    Calamares will quit when the dialog closes. 
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: QML Component (default slideshow) deactivated
2022-11-01 - 15:25:23 [6]: void Config::doNotify(bool, bool)
    Notification not sent; completion: failed

Thus, this brings me to the following questions:

  • can you guys resolve this problem with your ISO?
  • how can I work around this problem inside the Live install? Using pacman -Syu breaks Calamares with being unable to load the users@users module
2

Ugh, it looks like something changed with packaging and now something is requiring exfat-tools.

Yes, thanks for reporting it.

Before starting the installer, edit /etc/calamares/modules/pacstrap.conf and delete the line with exfatprogs

3

We probably need to remove exfatprogs

4

Yes, we will need to hotfix it.

5

Before starting the installer, edit /etc/calamares/modules/pacstrap.conf and delete the line with exfatutils

thing is, there is no exfat-utils listed there:

# basePackages is an array of package names to pass to pacstrap
#
basePackages:
  - iptables-nft
  - base
  - base-devel
  - btrfs-progs
  - cryptsetup
  - device-mapper
  - diffutils
  - dosfstools
  - e2fsprogs
  - efibootmgr
  - endeavouros-keyring
  - endeavouros-mirrorlist
  - exfatprogs
  - f2fs-tools
  - inetutils
  - jfsutils
  - less
  - linux
  - linux-firmware
  - linux-headers
  - logrotate
  - lsb-release
  - lvm2
  - man-db
  - man-pages
  - mdadm
  - mkinitcpio-busybox
  - mkinitcpio-nfs-utils
  - mkinitcpio-openswap
  - nano
  - netctl
  - ntfs-3g
  - os-prober
  - perl
  - python
  - reiserfsprogs
  - s-nail
  - sudo
  - grub
  - sysfsutils
  - systemd-sysvcompat
  - texinfo
  - usbutils
  - which
  - xfsprogs
  - xterm
  - mkinitcpio

e8d48d81cc1b7448ff1d889019a4baa508f0a1173f0228704bde320fdb46da8b  /etc/calamares/modules/pacstrap.conf
6

It was a typo. I meant exfatprogs

7

so do I just remove exfatprogs from the list of packages and that’s it? Won’t that affect people manually partitioning their hard drives and using fat16/fat32?

8

What change in packaging did you see, I couldn’t find any big change

9

yes.

No, because from your output, it looks like exfat-utils is getting pulled in as dependency. Also, exfat and fat16/fat32 are different so it wouldn’t affect that either way.

10

I didn’t look at it but if that error is appearing in the pacstrap module, it means something now depends on exfat-utils that didn’t in the past.

11

cool, I’ll start the installation then, see you on the other side

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12

doesn’t exfatprogs provide exfat-utils according to its pkgbuild??

Yes it is looking like exfat-utils is getting installed first
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/exfat-utils/
I don’t see anything here.

I’m starting a test install now

13

It wouldn’t be there. It would be a different package requiring that package.

The only other possibility is a broken mirror.

Or…this isn’t an issue with the ISO at all due to the below.

14

found another roadblock:

2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Starting job "pacstrap" ( 12 / 41 ) 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]: virtual Calamares::JobResult Calamares::PythonJob::exec()
    Job file "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/pacstrap/main.py" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: Found gettext "es" in "/usr/share/locale/es" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]:     .. Job description from pretty_name "pacstrap" = "Install base system" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: ==> Creating install root at /tmp/calamares-root-qxru91kc" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: ==> Installing packages to /tmp/calamares-root-qxru91kc" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:40 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: Synchronizing package databases..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:42 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: endeavouros downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:42 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: core downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:42 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: extra downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:42 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: community downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:42 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: multilib downloading..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: iptables-nft-1:1.8.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: downgrading package base (3-2 => 3-1)" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: There are 26 members in group base-devel:" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: Repository core" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: 1) archlinux-keyring  2) autoconf  3) automake  4) binutils  5) bison  6) debugedit  7) fakeroot  8) file  9) findutils  10) flex  11) gawk  12) gcc  13) gettext  14) grep  15) groff  16) gzip  17) libtool  18) m4  19) make  20) pacman  21) patch  22) pkgconf  23) sed  24) sudo  25) texinfo  26) which" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: Enter a selection (default=all): warning: archlinux-keyring-20220927-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: autoconf-2.71-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: automake-1.16.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: binutils-2.39-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: bison-3.8.2-4 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: debugedit-5.0-4 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: fakeroot-1.29-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: file-5.43-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: findutils-4.9.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: flex-2.6.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: gawk-5.2.0-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: gcc-12.2.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: grep-3.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: groff-1.22.4-7 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: gzip-1.12-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: libtool-2.4.7-5 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: m4-1.4.19-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: make-4.3-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: downgrading package pacman (6.0.2-1 => 6.0.1-8)" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: patch-2.7.6-8 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: pkgconf-1.8.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: sed-4.8-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: texinfo-6.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: which-2.21-5 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: cryptsetup-2.5.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: device-mapper-2.03.16-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: diffutils-3.8-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: dosfstools-4.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: e2fsprogs-1.46.5-4 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: efibootmgr-18-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: f2fs-tools-1.15.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: inetutils-2.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: jfsutils-1.1.15-8 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: less-1:608-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: linux-firmware-20220913.f09bebf-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: logrotate-3.20.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: lsb-release-2.0.r48.3cf5103-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: lvm2-2.03.16-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: mdadm-4.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: mkinitcpio-busybox-1.35.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: mkinitcpio-openswap-0.1.0-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: nano-6.4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: netctl-1.28-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: os-prober-1.81-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: perl-5.36.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: reiserfsprogs-3.6.27-3 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: s-nail-14.9.24-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: sysfsutils-2.1.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: warning: usbutils-014-2 is up to date -- reinstalling" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:43 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: resolving dependencies..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: looking for conflicting packages..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: installing pacman (6.0.1-8) breaks dependency 'pacman-contrib' required by bmenu" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: :: installing pacman (6.0.1-8) breaks dependency 'pacman-contrib' required by pacui" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "pacstrap: ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Skipping non-emergency job "Generar el identificador único de máquina." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "fstab" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurar uso horario a America/Costa_Rica" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurar modelo de teclado a pc105, distribución a us-" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "localecfg" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job " " 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "packages" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurando archivo de claves LUKS." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurando la memoria de intercambio («swap») cifrada." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "initcpiocfg" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Creando el «initramfs» con «mkinitcpio»." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Configurar usuarios <pre>sudo</pre> ." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Preparando grupos." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Crear el usuario jorge" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Definir contraseña para el usuario jorge." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Definir contraseña para el usuario root." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Hostname: lightyear-eos" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "networkcfg" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "displaymanager" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "hwclock" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "grubcfg" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "bootloader" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "eos_script" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "eos_script" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "reset 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "services-systemd" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Guardando archivos para más tarde..." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "copy logs and files from host to target" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     ..  Skipping non-emergency job "Desmontar los sistemas de archivos." 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
    ERROR: Installation failed: "Failed to run pacstrap" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     .. - message: "Failed to run pacstrap" 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]:     .. - details: Failed to run pacman
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
    Calamares will quit when the dialog closes. 
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: QML Component (default slideshow) deactivated
2022-11-01 - 16:11:57 [6]: void Config::doNotify(bool, bool)
    Notification not sent; completion: failed
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Ahh…are you trying to install into an existing install without formatting it?

That would also explain those errors.

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AFAIK nope, I’m not trying to do that. Should I always format /, /opt/, /var and /boot/efi between attempts?

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If you use manual partitioning, you need to check the box to format the partition.

You definitely aren’t getting a clean install because you are getting conflicts with pacui at the point of pacstrap.

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understood

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indeed the same i was thinking because of the massive reinstalling of packages in pacstrap what is not how it should run… i have done install switch release iso yesterday and today without this issue happen…
try now again…

@shackra what DE you try to install?

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That was probably the issue with exfat-utils too. It was in the existing install, not due to a packaging change.