Hi. I’m a regular Windows casual user. Had a couple of swings with multiple distro before, including EndeavourOS. After a break from messing with Linux, i decided to try it out the distro again. This time though it seems like something’s gone wrong with the installation.
Select GNOME, KDE Plasma, and No Desktop. The first two end at ~36% and show the exact same log as the attached link. The last end at ~60% mark and return ‘bad [something] script’
Use these two lines of code: sudo cp /etc/calamares/settings_online.conf /etc/calamares/settings.confsudo calamares -D8 | tee endeavour-install.log, as indicated in Calamares initialization failed - #6 by dalto
I suspect the error is because the script is trying to install nautilus-sendto which i couldn’t manually find using pacman -Ss
There is a known issue with gnome. This is what is your logs.
You can solve it by unchecking nautilus-sendto under gnome on the packages selection screen.
I am not sure why kde or no desktop would have failed. Those would not try to install nautilus-sendto I would need to see logs from those options to know for sure.
If you want KDE, you can always do an offline installation. That will get you KDE and will be more reliable than an online install.
I’m getting better at this, this was the line I noticed. I like following these threads and looking at the logs and advice that is given. I wouldn’t have had any idea of a fix but by watching this I’ll learn some more.
I then chose the first option and tried to shrink 20mb of my existing partition. Still the issue of “bad main script file”.
I then went to Windows to try to make a partition of the free space i have on disk and boot from the USB, but installer still recognizes it as free space.
Here is the result from sudo parted -l after all of this:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp, no_automount
2 106MB 123MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres, no_automount
3 123MB 158GB 158GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
4 158GB 159GB 1074MB ext4 bls_boot
5 263GB 398GB 136GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
7 398GB 420GB 21.8GB ext4 endeavouros
6 511GB 512GB 813MB ntfs hidden, diag, no_automount
Wondering if this is a big enough partition for EFI? Just from what I’ve read it should be bigger than this (only making guesses at things, don’t do a thing til someone smart advise it)
Yer don’t touch anything like I said til someone smarter can help but from my online searches it seems it should be bigger than that if you are using 2 OS
It can. However I am not sure what the minimal size requirement for ESP is in EnOS.
At any rate, it is too small for systemd-boot. For systemd-boot the size should be min. 1024MB.
For Grub, it is alright, but yet, I believe the EnOS has a min. size requirement.
If I remember it correctly, it is set in one of the installer’s config files.
It has been quite a while that I have not looked at them so I can’t tell which one you would need to edit before launching the installer.
At any rate, letting each OS have its own ESP can have at least one advantage, that is, the risk that a future update in Windows overwrites your Linux’ bootloader is effectively eliminated.
There have been occasional reports here on the forum attesting to this.
As I mentioned, you don’t need to make any directory in the live session’s filesystem for mounting any partition there. At least not for the purpose of installing the system with Calamares (the GUI installer)
So, if this is going to be ESP for your EnOS, here is what you need to do:
unmount it first from where you mounted it previously