Error while partitioning EndeavourOS

Rednave · February 9, 2024, 7:47pm

While trying to install Endeavour onto an old laptop everything seems to work well until I get to the partitions step. This laptop started on windows 8, then I installed PopOs. When I tried to switch to Debian, it was having similar errors and now I am trying Endeavour because nothing seems to be working.

Here is the error message I got (It’s not the whole thing cuase of the character limit on these messages);

2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 32 “packages” +wt 1 tot.wt 29
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 33 “hwclock” +wt 1 tot.wt 30
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 34 “Remove unneeded ucode” +wt 1 tot.wt 31
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 35 “eos_script” +wt 1 tot.wt 32
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 36 “eos_script” +wt 1 tot.wt 33
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 37 “eos_bootloader” +wt 1 tot.wt 34
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 38 “windowsbootentry” +wt 1 tot.wt 35
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 39 “grubcfg” +wt 1 tot.wt 36
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 40 “bootloader” +wt 1 tot.wt 37
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 41 “services-systemd” +wt 1 tot.wt 38
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 42 “Saving files for later …” +wt 1 tot.wt 39
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 43 “Remove package files” +wt 1 tot.wt 40
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 44 “Copy logs and files from host to target” +wt 1 tot.wt 41
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job 45 “Unmount file systems.” +wt 1 tot.wt 42
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
Starting job “hardwaredetect” ( 1 / 45 )
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: virtual Calamares::JobResult Calamares::PythonJob::exec()
Job file “/usr/lib/calamares/modules/hardwaredetect/main.py”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: Found gettext “en_US” in “/usr/share/locale/en_US”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: … Job description from pretty_name “hardwaredetect” = “Hardware detection”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
Starting job “Manage auto-mount settings” ( 2 / 45 )
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: virtual Calamares::JobResult AutoMountManagementJob::exec()
Set automount to disable
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: void CalamaresUtils::Partition::querySolidAutoMount(QDBusConnection&, AutoMountInfo&)
Solid not available: “Not connected to D-Bus server”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
Starting job “Clear all temporary mounts.” ( 3 / 45 )
2024-02-09 - 14:41:37 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
Starting job “Clear mounts for partitioning operations on /dev/debian-vg” ( 4 / 45 )
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: QStringList getPartitionsForDevice(const QString&)
Reading from “/proc/partitions” looking for “debian-vg”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: virtual Calamares::JobResult ClearMountsJob::exec()
ClearMountsJob finished. Here’s what was done:
“Successfully closed mapper device /dev/mapper/debian–vg-swap_1.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Running (“udevadm”, “settle”)
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Running (“sync”)
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
Starting job “Create new gpt partition table on /dev/debian-vg.” ( 5 / 45 )
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: virtual Calamares::JobResult CreatePartitionTableJob::exec()
Creating new partition table of type “gpt” , uncommitted partitions:
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … “New Partition”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … “New Partition”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … “New Partition”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … “unallocated”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Running (“lsblk”)
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … lsblk output:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 2.3G 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
|-sda2 8:2 0 437.8G 0 part
-sda3 8:3 0 27G 0 part sdb 8:16 1 29.3G 0 disk |-sdb1 8:17 1 2.4G 0 part /run/archiso/bootmnt -sdb2 8:18 1 157M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Running (“mount”)
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … mount output:
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1882488k,nr_inodes=470622,mode=755,inode64)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755,inode64)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /run/archiso/bootmnt type iso9660 (ro,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8)
cowspace on /run/archiso/cowspace type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10485760k,mode=755,inode64)
/dev/loop0 on /run/archiso/airootfs type squashfs (ro,relatime,errors=continue,threads=single)
airootfs on / type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/run/archiso/airootfs,upperdir=/run/archiso/cowspace/persistent_EOS_202401/x86_64/upperdir,workdir=/run/archiso/cowspace/persistent_EOS_202401/x86_64/workdir,uuid=on)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=37,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=481)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=1957964k,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,pagesize=2M)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=391592k,nr_inodes=97898,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
Skipping non-emergency job “Create new 1000MiB partition on /dev/debian-vg (debian-vg).”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set flags on 1000MiB fat32 partition.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Create new 18192MiB partition on /dev/debian-vg (debian-vg) with entries endeavouros.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Create new 8416MiB partition on /dev/debian-vg (debian-vg).”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set partition information”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Manage auto-mount settings”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “mount”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “unpackfs”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Generate machine-id.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “fstab”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set timezone to America/Indiana/Indianapolis”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set keyboard model to pc105, layout to us-”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “localecfg”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Configuring LUKS key file.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Skip writing LUKS configuration for Dracut: "/" partition is not encrypted”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Remove live user from target system”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Apply minor fixes”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Configure

sudo

users.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Preparing groups.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Create user linux”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set password for user linux”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set password for user root”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Set hostname linux-latitude3440”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “networkcfg”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “displaymanager”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “initialize pacman… copy pacman mirrorlist and keyring to target…”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “packages”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “hwclock”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Remove unneeded ucode”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “eos_script”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “eos_script”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “eos_bootloader”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “windowsbootentry”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “grubcfg”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “bootloader”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “services-systemd”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Saving files for later …”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Remove package files”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Skipping non-emergency job “Copy logs and files from host to target”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … Starting EMERGENCY JOB “Unmount file systems.” ( 45 / 45 )
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
ERROR: Installation failed: “The installer failed to create a partition table on debian-vg.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … - message: “The installer failed to create a partition table on debian-vg.”
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: … - details:
Create a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/debian-vg’

Job: Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/debian-vg’

2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
Calamares will quit when the dialog closes.
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: QML Component (default slideshow) deactivated
2024-02-09 - 14:41:38 [6]: void Config::doNotify(bool, bool)
Notification not sent; completion: failed

I’m not sure how much of that is valuable but there is most of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

dalto · February 9, 2024, 7:50pm

Are you using manual partitioning and trying to install into an existing LVM group?

Rednave · February 9, 2024, 7:53pm

No, I tried using the erase entire disk option to let it automatically do it. Here is some screenshots that might help.

dalto · February 9, 2024, 7:58pm

Can you show a screenshot of the screen before that where you choose “Erase disk”

It is possibly a device selection issue on that page.

thefrog · February 9, 2024, 7:58pm

did you remove the swap flag from that partition?

Rednave · February 9, 2024, 8:02pm

Rednave · February 9, 2024, 8:03pm

I don’t think so, I’m unsure how to do that, so if I did it would have been by accident.

dalto · February 9, 2024, 8:03pm

Yeah, change the dropdown box at the top of the screen to your actual device

Rednave · February 9, 2024, 8:15pm

Oh wow it was really that simple XD, I had to do a manual partition like that but once I did it worked fine, thank you so much!

system · February 11, 2024, 8:15pm

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