"Sorry, unable to set root password" error during install

[JJones]

I believe it was 30GB but it was my host operating system that was running out of space... and because it was a virtual 30GB MX might have been told there was plenty of that 30GB left... but Virtualbox couldn't allocate enough for the next growth of the virtual HD. There would've been less than 2GB left on my real HD.. probably much less.. such that Linux wouldn't give Virtualbox enough to grow the VHD.

I wonder if other occurences of this error were on virtual machine installs? I suspect so?

[JJones]

In case someone asks...
I did find the associated bug report and put a comment there as well.
https://us-bz3.devzing.com/mx_antix/show_bug.cgi?id=9

[dolphin_oracle]

interesting thanks.

[JayM]

I've encountered this as well, after having created a new partition on a hard drive with gparted and forgetting to check and adjust the partition's size before clicking apply. I forget the partition's default size but it was very small, perhaps 8MB (?), and I can't duplicate it now as I've updated my version of gparted from 0.25 to 0.33 in the MX test repo since then. This error always has to do with too small of a root partition though.

[mar101]

this happened to me too. The thing is strange infact i have 40gb free. so what i've done is cancelled the installation process and went back to repartition with gparted. meaning i've deleted the partition which i wanna use for mx and set the necessary details , after that all went well...