Sorry if posting in incorrect place - started only yesterday, brand new to this distro, found a show-stopper bug and know how to fix it - wanted to share it with the devs.
I think I have this figured out, so it’s mostly a matter of tech person transfering it to the iso file.
Issue only in dragonized gaming edition - the “dragonized-only” doesn’t have it.
Right to the matter - live usb couldn’t boot past “Goal reached graphical user interface” (or something like that). It’s not really “frozen” per-say, but won’t progress past that point. Can still switch to other terminals, or ctrl-alt-delete to perfrom “soft restart” (linux output shows correct shutdown procedure being initialized).
Switched to second terminal, read through the logs: the mhwd failed when installing nvidia drivers.
Failure reason - pacman reported package conflict between python-pyxdg and python-xdg.
python-xdg is a dependency for oversteer (logitech mouse wheel handler) and nothing else.
sudo pacman -R oversteer python-xdg
sudo mhwd --install pci nvidia-something-something
After this live usb booted correctly.
As the issue is a show-stopper, I believe system boot should take priority over mouse wheel working nice.
I still couldn’t complete the GE installation - after reboot it just goes straight into kernel panick; barely managed to boot into terminal, tried force-reinstalling all packages, but pacman reported pretty much every single package broken, including network manager - hence can’t reinstall. But I don’t really care to deal with that - base dragonized installed quick and easy.
@FGD
I appreciate the quick fix. I can confirm that the ISO booted up fine now - in fact, I’m typing from it.
However, there is now an issue with the installer not starting. Seems like packages got upgraded beyond what the calamares depends on. Console output:
╭─garuda@garuda in ~ as 🧙 took 2s
[🔴] × calamares
calamares: error while loading shared libraries: libyaml-cpp.so.0.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
╭─garuda@garuda in ~ as 🧙 took 2s
[🔴] × sudo find / -name "*libyaml-cpp*"
find: ‘/proc/15751/task/15751/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/15751/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied
/run/miso/sfs/livefs/usr/lib/libyaml-cpp.so
/run/miso/sfs/livefs/usr/lib/libyaml-cpp.so.0.8
/run/miso/sfs/livefs/usr/lib/libyaml-cpp.so.0.8.0
/usr/lib/libyaml-cpp.so
/usr/lib/libyaml-cpp.so.0.8
/usr/lib/libyaml-cpp.so.0.8.0
It seems like 0.7 doesn’t exist in arch repos.
╭─garuda@garuda in ~ as 🧙 took 54ms
╰─λ sudo pacman -Ss yaml-cpp
extra/yaml-cpp 0.8.0-1 [installed]
YAML parser and emitter in C++, written around the YAML 1.2 spec
Last time I bypassed this by symlinking the newer version out of desperation, which might, just might, be why my installation was 100% broken
So… I guess time to recompile calamares?
p.s. I’m fine testing these things up to “begin installation” button, but please note I already made a comfortable home with the base version, and don’t want to reinstall on top
