On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 10:53:29PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> I have just installed a system using manual partitioning through the
> installer, with encryption. Everything worked like a charm.
>
> Can you provide more details about the steps you did to arrive at the
> error? And information about the (new and old) partition layout?
Thank you for trying. Hmm strange. I tried once again (I think I did
the same steps as before) and it worked. Maybe I forgot something?
Maybe it depends on how fast the machine completes a formatting task?
So I tried again two more times and it failed again, I got the error
again both times during partition formatting.
So all the partitioning is already done except for the encryption.
/dev/sdc is the install USB drive. /dev/sda is the hard disk.
/dev/sda1 is the EFI system partition; I do not format it. /dev/sda5
is the partition I try to put the encrypted root fs on. I check
encryption and set its mount point to “/”.
/var/log/messages has the following log for the installer:
Nov 15 23:49:30 localhost installer[259]: Display is 128x42.
Nov 15 23:49:30 localhost installer[259]: running step 'locale'
Nov 15 23:49:30 localhost installer[259]: running step 'language'
Nov 15 23:49:31 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 771a60>
("Locale language") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost vmunix: [ 56.102132] tg3 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: Link
is down
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {RX} 24 packets 3438 bytes
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {TX} 31 packets 3795 bytes
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {update} flags 36867 <UP>
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {newlink} index 2 address
10:9A:DD:46:4F:9F mtu 1500
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {newlink} index 2 operstate 2
<DOWN>
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost nscd: 211 monitored file `/etc/resolv.conf` was
written to
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost nscd: 211 monitored file `/etc/resolv.conf` was
written to
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {del} address 192.168.178.74/24
label enp3s0
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {del} route 192.168.178.0 gw
0.0.0.0 scope 253 <LINK>
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {del} route fd00:: gw :: scope
0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {del} route fe80:: gw :: scope
0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:49:40 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {del} address
fd00::129a:ddff:fe46:4f9f/64 label (null)
Nov 15 23:50:23 localhost installer[259]: running step 'territory'
Nov 15 23:50:23 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 771ab0>
("Locale location") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost installer[259]: running step 'codeset'
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost installer[259]: running step 'modifier'
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty2 has been
stopped.
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty2 has been stopped.
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started.
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty2 has been started.
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost installer[259]: running step 'welcome'
Nov 15 23:50:26 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 788ea0>
("GNU Guix install") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:27 localhost installer[259]: running step 'timezone'
Nov 15 23:50:27 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 789640>
("Timezone") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:32 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 7859b0>
("Timezone") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:34 localhost installer[259]: running step 'keymap'
Nov 15 23:50:34 localhost installer[259]: running step 'layout'
Nov 15 23:50:34 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 783e40>
("Layout") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:36 localhost installer[259]: running step 'variant'
Nov 15 23:50:36 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 7842a0>
("Variant") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:41 localhost installer[259]: running step 'hostname'
Nov 15 23:50:41 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 785dd0>
("Hostname") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:50:53 localhost installer[259]: running step 'network'
Nov 15 23:50:53 localhost installer[259]: running step 'select-technology'
Nov 15 23:50:53 localhost installer[259]: running step 'power-technology'
Nov 15 23:50:54 localhost installer[259]: running step 'connect-service'
Nov 15 23:50:54 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 7e5590> ("No
service") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost vmunix: [ 135.760473] tg3 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: Link
is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost vmunix: [ 135.760478] tg3 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: Flow
control is on for TX and on for RX
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost vmunix: [ 135.760598] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE):
enp3s0: link becomes ready
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} route fe80:: gw :: scope
0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {RX} 24 packets 3438 bytes
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {TX} 31 packets 3795 bytes
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {update} flags 102467
<UP,RUNNING,LOWER_UP>
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {newlink} index 2 address
10:9A:DD:46:4F:9F mtu 1500
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {newlink} index 2 operstate 6
<UP>
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: Setting domainname to fritz.box
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost nscd: 211 monitored file `/etc/resolv.conf` was
written to
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} address 192.168.178.74/24
label enp3s0 family 2
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: ntp: adjust (slew): +0.137667 sec
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} route 192.168.178.0 gw
0.0.0.0 scope 253 <LINK>
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} route 192.168.178.1 gw
0.0.0.0 scope 253 <LINK>
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} route 0.0.0.0 gw
192.168.178.1 scope 0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost nscd: 211 monitored file `/etc/resolv.conf` was
written to
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Nov 15 23:51:00 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} route 212.227.81.55 gw
192.168.178.1 scope 0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:51:01 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {del} route 212.227.81.55 gw
192.168.178.1 scope 0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:51:01 localhost installer[259]: running step 'select-technology'
Nov 15 23:51:01 localhost installer[259]: running step 'power-technology'
Nov 15 23:51:02 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} route fd00:: gw :: scope
0 <UNIVERSE>
Nov 15 23:51:02 localhost nscd: 211 monitored file `/etc/resolv.conf` was
written to
Nov 15 23:51:02 localhost installer[259]: running step 'connect-service'
Nov 15 23:51:03 localhost installer[259]: running step 'wait-online'
Nov 15 23:51:04 localhost installer[259]: running step 'user'
Nov 15 23:51:04 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 857f70>
("System administrator password") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:51:04 localhost connmand[210]: enp3s0 {add} address
fd00::129a:ddff:fe46:4f9f/64 label (null) family 10
Nov 15 23:51:04 localhost nscd: 211 monitored file `/etc/resolv.conf` was
written to
Nov 15 23:51:04 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Nov 15 23:51:15 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 85c870>
("Password confirmation required") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:51:23 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 85c820>
(add-users) with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:51:45 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 859770>
("Password confirmation required") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:51:54 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 858770>
(add-users) with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:51:55 localhost installer[259]: running step 'services'
Nov 15 23:51:55 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 859480>
("Desktop environment") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:01 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 8594d0>
("Network service") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:02 localhost installer[259]: running step 'partition'
Nov 15 23:52:04 localhost vmunix: [ 199.938163] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5
sda7
Nov 15 23:52:04 localhost vmunix: [ 200.195324] sdc: sdc2
Nov 15 23:52:04 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 8592a0>
("Partitioning method") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:08 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 8594d0>
("Manual partitioning") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:08 localhost vmunix: [ 203.706965] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5
sda7
Nov 15 23:52:08 localhost vmunix: [ 203.715838] sdc: sdc2
Nov 15 23:52:12 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 859910>
("Partition edit") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:15 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 86f5f0>
("Encryption label") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:24 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 86ee10>
("Partition edit") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:26 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 864610>
("Mounting point") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:28 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 8643a0>
("Partition edit") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:30 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 864450>
("Manual partitioning") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:33 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 86f730>
("Password required") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:45 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 870810>
("Password confirmation required") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:52:55 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 8643a0>
("Format disk?") with 0 clients
Nov 15 23:53:01 localhost vmunix: [ 257.244569] sdc: sdc2
Nov 15 23:53:03 localhost installer[259]: crashing due to uncaught exception:
misc-error (#f "~A" ("Device /dev/sda is still in use.") #f)
Nov 15 23:53:03 localhost installer[259]: running form #<newt-form 865370>
("Unexpected problem") with 0 clients
I assume some formatting step had not completed in time.
Regards,
Florian
