Issue with recent install

anon11595408 · September 10, 2022, 8:14pm

Today, I did an online XFCE install of EndeavourOS_Artemis_neo_22_8.iso.
It uses grub version 2:2.06.rxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx-1.
Installation method: Bios, ext4 on baremetal:

Calamares-Installer towards the end got stuck in a loop of grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg with no way to finish the installation:
The python-script was always trying to include /dev/sdb1 (my USB-Installer) into grub.cfg but of course couldn’t do it.

The BIG QUESTION: WHY?!

So I exited calamares and did an arch-chroot into the installed system.
There, I first did grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda, then sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
When I wanted to update, I found NetworkManager.service wasn’t enabled and startet yet.
Next thing, displaymanager service needed to be enabled before being able to boot into the XFCE-GUI.
First update via yay went fine.
Then, installing another kernel (zen) gave more problems… so sudo mkinitcpio -P before the next grub-install, and the subsequent grub-update… long story.

The result, with much tinkering:

P.S. - I wonder, was it the USB-stick, I created with Fedora image writer? It had done the job before well, a week or so ago (with a newer ISO from GitHub).

P.S.S. - Post Editor isn’t giving me the option to summarize some text. The function seems gone.

EDIT:
As @joekamprad showed in his post down below, it could not have been the python-script, but rather the grub-install, or the grub-update strangely breaking into a loop, not allowing calamares to finish the installation successfully.

joekamprad · September 10, 2022, 8:16pm

joekamprad · September 10, 2022, 8:18pm

indeed wrong thread and not the same issue …

dalto · September 10, 2022, 8:18pm

I moved this to it’s own topic. It was a bit too off-topic for where it was.

That makes sense. The install failed so not everything in the install would have finished.

anon11595408 · September 10, 2022, 8:18pm

It doesn’t show up here:

EDIT:
Aaarrghh… my browser-window was too narrow for it to show!

joekamprad · September 10, 2022, 8:22pm

grub-install runs right before the script to finish EndeavourOS-specific settings and changes (chrooted_cleaner_script) so everything from that is not getting applied to the installed system.

github.com

endeavouros-team/EndeavourOS-calamares/blob/main/calamares/scripts/chrooted_cleaner_script.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# New version of cleaner_script
# Made by @fernandomaroto and @manuel 
# Any failed command will just be skipped, error message may pop up but won't crash the install process
# Net-install creates the file /tmp/run_once in live environment (need to be transfered to installed system) so it can be used to detect install option
# ISO-NEXT specific cleanup removals and additions (08-2021) @killajoe and @manuel
# 01-2022 passing in online and username as params - @dalto
# 04-2022 small code re-organization - @manuel

_c_c_s_msg() {            # use this to provide all user messages (info, warning, error, ...)
    local type="$1"
    local msg="$2"
    echo "==> $type: $msg"
}

_pkg_msg() {            # use this to provide all package management messages (install, uninstall)
    local op="$1"
    local pkgs="$2"
    case "$op" in

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joekamprad · September 10, 2022, 8:29pm

good to know that there is no such issue

keybreak · September 10, 2022, 8:17pm

Summary

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@dalto
Move my post too, out of context it doesn’t make a lot of comedic sense…

anon11595408 · September 10, 2022, 8:35pm

What I wanted to say though —>> @dalto, @joekamprad:

I had to do grub-install after each update of the grub-package!

(Long story short.)

petsam · September 10, 2022, 9:34pm

Too short.
Any explanation on why this on Legacy?

anon11595408 · September 10, 2022, 9:36pm

No idea, really.

Read my OP?

I.e. the long version of what happened today, installing the ISO from EnOS main website.

joekamprad · September 11, 2022, 12:10pm

what is missing is the installer log… it could show exactly what was the issue…

anon11595408 · September 11, 2022, 4:00pm

Yeah, I realized that too late. After going through the installer-script searching for potential errors there, I discovered lots things that weren’t finished during install. So I deleted cache and journals all to receive a clean system… oh well.