Installer doesn't start: empty username and bus error

[cjvth]

I am installing Endeavouros_Cassini_Nova-03-2023_R3. Tried both Ventoy and Rufus (MBR). Everything looks fine, until I try to start the installer. It gives me a window with Online/Offline installation. After pressing any button, this window clothes, another window blinks for a frame and then nothing happens.

This is what happens if I try to start the installer from terminal:

[liveuser@eos-2023.08.05 ~]$ eos-install-mode-run-calamares 
bash: /home//user_commands.bash: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/eos-install-mode-run-calamares: line 171:  1449 Bus error               (core dumped) pkexec calamares -style kvantum -D8 >> $log
[liveuser@eos-2023.08.05 ~]$ 

installer log from live session:
cat /var/log/endeavour-install.log | eos-sendlog
There is nothing on /var/log/endeavour-install.log, but this is a similar file at /home/liveuser/
endeavour-install.log

Hardware information:
inxi -Fxxc0z --no-host | eos-sendlog

Boot log:
journalctl -b -0 | eos-sendlog

Artemis Neo 22_8 installer works fine for me from Ventoy

[dalto]

Can you try this and share the output if it fails?

sudo cp /etc/calamares/settings_online.conf /etc/calamares/settings.conf
sudo calamares -D8 | tee endeavour-install.log

[joekamprad]

Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x46ef58a4: -5
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [46ef58a4]
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 46ef58a4, size 34b48
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [46ef58a4]
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 46ef58a4, size 34b48
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 2254/UID 0).
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [46ef58a4]
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 46ef58a4, size 34b48
Sep 27 15:21:43 EndeavourOS systemd-coredump[2255]: Process 2243 (calamares) of user 0 dumped core.

from boot journal…
corrupted ISO file ? not fully synced to ventoy stick?

[joekamprad]

@cjvth

Rufus (MBR).

is not what you need there rufus needs to write in ISO or DD mode without changing anything on the ISO structure… if not it will fail.

[cjvth]

Okay. I checked the sha512 sum of the iso on my flash, it was wrong. It’s actually surprising, since I downloaded it via torrent. Now I downloaded is one more time, and the installer works

[joekamprad]

can happen… therefore we have the checksums