I’ve spent more than 12 hours trying to install Archlabs Openbox with lightdm (no LUKS, LVM, or such), but I wasn’t able to succeed in spite of following some forum threads suggesting solutions for similar problems. archlabs_2020.05.04
Errors and warnings I can pick up on (by using Ctrl-Z and reading the output carefully):
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Setting locale failed
came up twice iputils-20190709-3 is up to date --skipping
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Failed to open file "/sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload": Read-only file system error: command failed to execute correctly
came up twice sed: can't read /mnt/sudoers: No such file or directory
iputils-20190709-3 is up to date --reinstalling
WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
- There might be another warning or error which get overwritten by the installer’s first error warning prompt
After attempting to handle first error prompt
- complained that
lightdm
is missing, but I found a spelling mistake in the previous pacstrap command which I believe is the source of this particular bug:bash-completionlightdm
instead ofbash-completion
andlightdm
In the resulting installation only the root user is accessible with the root password (when auto-login was not selected) and the WM cannot lauch since startx
is missing (packages did not install?)
I also did an install without selecting a WM and login manager planning to do this after I get it running successfully. In this case the installer does not halt, but I can see similar warning and errors in the output as it scroll off screen. The users seem to be set up correctly this time, however, when I tried to install neovim the installation was refused due to corrupted package msgpack-c-3.3.0-1