Installation Failure, then 2nd attempt is over 2.5 hours, still running

General system EndeavourOS installation
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My first attempt at the install I walked away from, and came back to the machine running but the install was ‘gone’. I assumed it was a success and rebooted, to find the installation failed. Currently running again and so far so good, but it is surprising how long the install takes. My machine is hard wired on ethernet to fiber, so I dont think this is a download speed issue. Are the DEBUG messages normal?

Debug log: https://termbin.com/xwt9

Thank you for any help, looking forward to getting this baby running!

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It looks like it stopped for 90 minutes in the middle of downloading and then started again.

It seems to be running at a normal speed with the exception of that 90 minutes pause.

I have never seen that before. It paused in the middle of running pacstrap.

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I am not knowledgeable enough to triage this, but others seem to be reporting the same sort of issue[1]. Perhaps one of the mirrors not working as expected, @dalto?

Edit: There’s more it seems[2].

[1] The installation process is stuck
[2] EndeavourOS Installation Hangs Indefinitely At 13%

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At least I updated the mirrors before the installation.

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Ok I’ll do that on the next run. That install took over 5 hours and reported success, but the machine will not fully boot.

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There is no difference if I updated the mirrors before installation or not.

Luckily EOS installs KDE by default and that is what I want. So I chose “Offline Installation” and the install is successful.

But the thing is even after booting into the newly installated OS I can’t install any packages. I wonder if people using Arch face the same issue.

Is the issue with EOS or Arch servers?

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OK, I hadn’t tried the offline installation because I wanted to deselect packages right from the start. As I said, it took me a little over 50 minutes, but after that everything seemed to be OK, as far as I can tell as a newbie. But I don’t want to try it again now, because 5 hours is quite a different story.

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It doesn’t matter if you update the mirrors before the installation, the installation updates them again.

You have to update them after the installation hangs and select non US mirrors using reflector . I did two installations Friday and had luck with the UK and Canada. You might have to do it a couple of times before it “catches”. At least that was my experience.

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Interesting :thinking:

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So the offline install worked for me, but my machine is plaqued with booting issues. I did find the Arch wiki page for my machine (system76 oryx pro). I can’t fully blame the mirrors at this point as I installed without them. Followed all the instructions on the wiki down to updating the EC, and now the machine fails in booting.

Can I enable any kind of debug mode during booting to collect logs about what is happening?

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you may mixed mkinitcpio and dracut… archwikli will mainly give info on mkinitcpio first but EndreavourOS is using Dracut.
You should always be able to arch-chroot from a livesession.
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/installation/dracut/2022/12/
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/2022/12/

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journalctl -b -0 will show logs from last boot

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thanks for getting on it. for my own reference is your fix to the iso installer? or independent of the iso?

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it is … both :wink: we can HotFix online installs on the ISO live.
SO the Fix is working with the current released ISO automatically without any intervention needed from the user.

To be honest, it’s more like removing a fix that doesn’t work.

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thanks for that

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