MX-18_January_x64 ISO issues

[matteopa]

Ran that Sudo -E minstall from terminal and went through installation to grub install part of installer and it failed there again. I got copy of the terminal output here. I'll try it again then once and see if I can get to the Root password part of installer. I'll do what I can to help you guys out, cause I love MX Linux (hate systemd) and MX Linux is one distro I can install Brave browser in without much hassles lol

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demo@mx1:~
$ sudo -E minstall
"awk -F '\t' '!/^#/ { print $3 }' /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | sort"
exit code: 0
+++ void MInstall::setupkeyboardbutton() +++
"cat /usr/share/antiX/locales.template"
exit code: 0
"grub-probe -d /dev/sda2 2>/dev/null | grep hfsplus"
exit code: 1
+++ void MInstall::firstRefresh(QDialog*) +++
"command -v xfconf-query >/dev/null && su $(logname) -c 'xfconf-query --channel thunar-volman --property /automount-drives/enabled --set false'"
exit code: 0
+++ void MInstall::refresh() +++
+++ void MInstall::updatePartitionWidgets() +++
+++ static int MInstall::getPartitionNumber() +++
+++ bool MInstall::checkDisk() +++
+++ void MInstall::prepareToInstall() +++
"mountpoint -q /mnt/antiX/boot/efi"
exit code: 1
"/bin/umount -l /mnt/antiX/home >/dev/null 2>&1"
exit code: 32
"/bin/umount -l /mnt/antiX >/dev/null 2>&1"
exit code: 32
+++ bool MInstall::makeDefaultPartitions() +++
"uname -m | grep -q i686"
exit code: 1
"test -d /sys/firmware/efi"
exit code: 1
"/sbin/swapoff -a 2>&1"
exit code: 0
"/bin/umount -l /dev/sda1 >/dev/null 2>&1"
exit code: 32
could not umount:  "/dev/sda1"
"/sbin/sfdisk -s /dev/sda"
exit code: 0
"/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=100"
exit code: 0
"parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos"
exit code: 0
"parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0 28640MiB"
exit code: 0
"parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 28640MiB 30688MiB"
exit code: 0
+++ bool MInstall::makeSwapPartition(QString) +++
"/sbin/mkswap /dev/sda2 -L swapMX"
exit code: 0
"make-fstab -s"
exit code: 0
"/sbin/swapon -a 2>&1"
exit code: 0
+++ bool MInstall::makeLinuxPartition(QString, const QString&, bool, const QString&) +++
"mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda1 -L "rootMX18""
exit code: 0
"/sbin/tune2fs -c0 -C0 -i1m /dev/sda1"
exit code: 0
"blkid /dev/sda | grep -q PTTYPE=\"gpt\""
exit code: 1
"parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on"
exit code: 0
+++ bool MInstall::mountPartition(QString, QString, QString) +++
"/bin/mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/antiX -o defaults,noatime"
exit code: 0
+++ void MInstall::installLinux() +++
+++ void MInstall::copyLinux() +++
+++ void MInstall::buildServiceList() +++
+++ void MInstall::copyDone(int, QProcess::ExitStatus) +++
"mkdir -m 1777 /mnt/antiX/tmp"
exit code: 0
Create fstab entries for:
rootdev "/dev/sda1"
homedev ""
swapdev "/dev/sda2"
bootdev ""
+++ QString MInstall::getPartType(QString) +++
"blkid /dev/sda1 -o value -s TYPE"
exit code: 0
change fstab entries to use UUIDs
"mount -o bind /dev /mnt/antiX/dev"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /sys /mnt/antiX/sys"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /proc /mnt/antiX/proc"
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX dev2uuid_fstab"
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=39ded007-1a02-4439-8c7d-33a9a6641d9d / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=bcd341cc-d56d-4df7-9178-57a78ddbcdac swap swap defauts 0 0 
DONE!
Exit code:  0
clear chroot env
"umount /mnt/antiX/proc"
Exit code:  0
"umount /mnt/antiX/sys"
Exit code:  0
"umount /mnt/antiX/dev"
Exit code:  0
"/usr/sbin/live-to-installed /mnt/antiX"
exit code: 0
Desktop menu
"chroot /mnt/antiX desktop-menu --write-out-global"
chroot: failed to run command ‘desktop-menu’: No such file or directory
Exit code:  32512
"/bin/rm -rf /mnt/antiX/home/demo"
exit code: 0
"/bin/rm -rf /mnt/antiX/media/sd*"
exit code: 0
"/bin/rm -rf /mnt/antiX/media/hd*"
exit code: 0
"blkid /dev/sda | grep -q PTTYPE=\"gpt\""
exit code: 1
+++ bool MInstall::installLoader() +++
"blkid /dev/sda | grep -q PTTYPE=\"gpt\""
exit code: 1
"parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on"
"parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /dev /mnt/antiX/dev"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /sys /mnt/antiX/sys"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /proc /mnt/antiX/proc"
Exit code:  0
Installing Grub
"grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/antiX/boot /dev/sda"
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: this msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible.
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
Installation finished. No error reported.
Exit code:  0
grubDefault is  "quiet splash"
intermediate ("quiet", "quiet", "splash")
Add cmdline options to Grub ("quiet", "splash")
cmdlinestring "quiet splash"
Add cmdline options to Grub
"sed -i -r 's|^(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=).*|\1"quiet splash"|' /mnt/antiX/etc/default/grub"
Exit code:  0
"uname -m | grep -q i686"
df: write error: Broken pipe
Floating point exception

[matteopa]

Did you check the checksum of the download to make sure you have a good downloaded copy?

Nah, I don't usually check checksum for doing Virtual Machine installs. If I do installs on host /main machines I check the checksums. I did download it from one of the linked mirrors from MXLinux site though. Not from outside sources / other odd ball sites.

Even downloading the from the linked mirrors from MX Linux web site doesn't guarantee it's a good copy. It still could be a bad copy.

Yeah you're right, I should have kept the tab open that I had downloaded it from, then someone else could test it as well. *kicks self* I'll have to start making it habit to check the checksums from now on for virtual machines and host machine installations. >_<

Edit: Wait, it might have been this link I got it from: http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-isos/MX/Snapshots/

[oldhoghead]

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Installing Grub
"grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/antiX/boot /dev/sda"
Installing for i386-pc platform.

Wondering if this may shed some light, the above is for non-UEFI install.
So do you have 386 or x64?

ohh

[matteopa]

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Installing Grub
"grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/antiX/boot /dev/sda"
Installing for i386-pc platform.

Wondering if this may shed some light, the above is for non-UEFI install.
So do you have 386 or x64?

ohh

Title of thread, x64. :) Under settings for the VM there is floppy checked, optical checked, hard disk checked. Not sure if it helps or not, but the first time I installed it and grub failed was letting the installer do the partitioning itself. The second time I installed it and I couldn't get past the user account creation is when I opened gparted and created one big partition the size of entire hard drive (30GB) and made it ext4 (primary)... no swap partitions, no nothing else. Just entire drive as ext4 and primary. Of course the installer went and did the formatting and partitioning anyway lol I managed to get to user creation part of installation process and got the error about root password.

[dolphin_oracle]

Ran that Sudo -E minstall from terminal and went through installation to grub install part of installer and it failed there again. I got copy of the terminal output here. I'll try it again then once and see if I can get to the Root password part of installer. I'll do what I can to help you guys out, cause I love MX Linux (hate systemd) and MX Linux is one distro I can install Brave browser in without much hassles lol

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demo@mx1:~
$ sudo -E minstall
"awk -F '\t' '!/^#/ { print $3 }' /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | sort"
exit code: 0
+++ void MInstall::setupkeyboardbutton() +++
"cat /usr/share/antiX/locales.template"
exit code: 0
"grub-probe -d /dev/sda2 2>/dev/null | grep hfsplus"
exit code: 1
+++ void MInstall::firstRefresh(QDialog*) +++
"command -v xfconf-query >/dev/null && su $(logname) -c 'xfconf-query --channel thunar-volman --property /automount-drives/enabled --set false'"
exit code: 0
+++ void MInstall::refresh() +++
+++ void MInstall::updatePartitionWidgets() +++
+++ static int MInstall::getPartitionNumber() +++
+++ bool MInstall::checkDisk() +++
+++ void MInstall::prepareToInstall() +++
"mountpoint -q /mnt/antiX/boot/efi"
exit code: 1
"/bin/umount -l /mnt/antiX/home >/dev/null 2>&1"
exit code: 32
"/bin/umount -l /mnt/antiX >/dev/null 2>&1"
exit code: 32
+++ bool MInstall::makeDefaultPartitions() +++
"uname -m | grep -q i686"
exit code: 1
"test -d /sys/firmware/efi"
exit code: 1
"/sbin/swapoff -a 2>&1"
exit code: 0
"/bin/umount -l /dev/sda1 >/dev/null 2>&1"
exit code: 32
could not umount:  "/dev/sda1"
"/sbin/sfdisk -s /dev/sda"
exit code: 0
"/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=100"
exit code: 0
"parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos"
exit code: 0
"parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0 28640MiB"
exit code: 0
"parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 28640MiB 30688MiB"
exit code: 0
+++ bool MInstall::makeSwapPartition(QString) +++
"/sbin/mkswap /dev/sda2 -L swapMX"
exit code: 0
"make-fstab -s"
exit code: 0
"/sbin/swapon -a 2>&1"
exit code: 0
+++ bool MInstall::makeLinuxPartition(QString, const QString&, bool, const QString&) +++
"mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda1 -L "rootMX18""
exit code: 0
"/sbin/tune2fs -c0 -C0 -i1m /dev/sda1"
exit code: 0
"blkid /dev/sda | grep -q PTTYPE=\"gpt\""
exit code: 1
"parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on"
exit code: 0
+++ bool MInstall::mountPartition(QString, QString, QString) +++
"/bin/mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/antiX -o defaults,noatime"
exit code: 0
+++ void MInstall::installLinux() +++
+++ void MInstall::copyLinux() +++
+++ void MInstall::buildServiceList() +++
+++ void MInstall::copyDone(int, QProcess::ExitStatus) +++
"mkdir -m 1777 /mnt/antiX/tmp"
exit code: 0
Create fstab entries for:
rootdev "/dev/sda1"
homedev ""
swapdev "/dev/sda2"
bootdev ""
+++ QString MInstall::getPartType(QString) +++
"blkid /dev/sda1 -o value -s TYPE"
exit code: 0
change fstab entries to use UUIDs
"mount -o bind /dev /mnt/antiX/dev"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /sys /mnt/antiX/sys"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /proc /mnt/antiX/proc"
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX dev2uuid_fstab"
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=39ded007-1a02-4439-8c7d-33a9a6641d9d / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=bcd341cc-d56d-4df7-9178-57a78ddbcdac swap swap defauts 0 0 
DONE!
Exit code:  0
clear chroot env
"umount /mnt/antiX/proc"
Exit code:  0
"umount /mnt/antiX/sys"
Exit code:  0
"umount /mnt/antiX/dev"
Exit code:  0
"/usr/sbin/live-to-installed /mnt/antiX"
exit code: 0
Desktop menu
"chroot /mnt/antiX desktop-menu --write-out-global"
chroot: failed to run command ‘desktop-menu’: No such file or directory
Exit code:  32512
"/bin/rm -rf /mnt/antiX/home/demo"
exit code: 0
"/bin/rm -rf /mnt/antiX/media/sd*"
exit code: 0
"/bin/rm -rf /mnt/antiX/media/hd*"
exit code: 0
"blkid /dev/sda | grep -q PTTYPE=\"gpt\""
exit code: 1
+++ bool MInstall::installLoader() +++
"blkid /dev/sda | grep -q PTTYPE=\"gpt\""
exit code: 1
"parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on"
"parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /dev /mnt/antiX/dev"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /sys /mnt/antiX/sys"
Exit code:  0
"mount -o bind /proc /mnt/antiX/proc"
Exit code:  0
Installing Grub
"grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/antiX/boot /dev/sda"
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: this msdos-style partition label has no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible.
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
Installation finished. No error reported.
Exit code:  0
grubDefault is  "quiet splash"
intermediate ("quiet", "quiet", "splash")
Add cmdline options to Grub ("quiet", "splash")
cmdlinestring "quiet splash"
Add cmdline options to Grub
"sed -i -r 's|^(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=).*|\1"quiet splash"|' /mnt/antiX/etc/default/grub"
Exit code:  0
"uname -m | grep -q i686"
df: write error: Broken pipe
Floating point exception

thank you for this...it will help us zero in on the point of problem.

could you also provide a system report (quick-system-info will copy it to your clipboard for easy pasting into a forum message)

[matteopa]

thank you for this...it will help us zero in on the point of problem.

could you also provide a system report (quick-system-info will copy it to your clipboard for easy pasting into a forum message)

Sure no problem, anything to help you all out. :) And yeah I could run that then. I deleted that VM and had tried again little while ago and got same grub error /issue. Going to attempt a new install once with new VM of it.

[Stevo]

Since the OP is running the Live session in Virtual Box, I don't think we'll see much hardware information except for the CPU and battery, if present. Information about the host OS and the VBox VM settings would be welcome, though, like if 3D acceleration is enabled for the VM.

[matteopa]

Since the OP is running the Live session in Virtual Box, I don't think we'll see much hardware information except for the CPU and battery, if present. Information about the host OS and the VBox VM settings would be welcome, though, like if 3D acceleration is enabled for the VM.

Yep, 3d acceleration is enabled, basically 1G ram and 1 processor. Floppy, optical, and hard disk checked. Shared clipboard and Drag n Drop are "bidirectional". PAE/NX enabled. And these settings here in image.

[matteopa]

Alright, the last 2 or 3 times I couldn't get past the grub installation and had that error I posted above there. This time I went through installer without issues and didn't get root password error either. Apparently like was mentioned before it happens sporadically. I'll try again a few more times and see if I get root password error again though, cause it's obvious the bug is there but not always happening.

[Eadwine Rose]

Nah, I don't usually check checksum for doing Virtual Machine installs. If I do installs on host /main machines I check the checksums. I did download it from one of the linked mirrors from MXLinux site though. Not from outside sources / other odd ball sites.

ALWAYS check.

We need to be sure that your checksum is good or we'll be helping to no avail after all. :)