Greetings,
The current CachyOS GUI Installer ( cachyos-kde-linux-240512.iso ) has a bug when handling the Archlinux Keyring.
How to replicate
Simply start a normal installation via the Installer presented in the CachyOS-Hello popup.
The following error occurs after making your whole set of selections, and the Installation starts:
Before(!) running the installer the first time, open a terminal, and perform the following commands:
sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman-key --populate
Afterwards, the installer from the CachyOS-Hello popup works fine.
This workaround only works if the installer has not run into the error yet - if it has, a reboot is required to apply this workaround without a hassle.
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Thanks for the tutorial.
Yes, this is somewhat problematic, since this is not reproduceable. We are ranking the mirrors before importing the keyring, and somehow either at the copy process or fetching the “new” keyring is a failure.
I could never reproduce this issue on my machine or in QEMU Installation. Ive tried to mitigate this in the last release, to move the mirror ranking before installing the keyring, it helped for some people but still not a omplete solution.
Greetings,
Wouldn’t simply running those two lines at the very start of the installer before anything else definitely solve the issue?
The keyring package is small, so mirror selection should not really matter at that point yet.
Normally not, maybe its just “luck”. Because the ISO’s keyring is something different then the targets keyring.
FYI, we will integrate into the next release some kind of workaround, which fetches the archlinux-keyring, when clicking the launch installer button ,which hopefully should mitigate these.
Besides that, we also made additional changes to the mirror ranking.
It will only Rank Tier 1 Mirror, which should also help there:
https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/testing/
Please check this ISO. We added an additonal mitigation for this.
Well, then its an issue on the archlinux mirror side. It is really hard to mitigate this for us.
Repackaging the archlinux-keyring would be kinda mess. I also can not reproduce the issue, but people said installing archlinux-keyring before starting the installer should help, which we now do at the new ISO.
EOS and Cachy share the same method to include the keyring
