Installation issues

Issues & Assistance
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I am having a very odd experience installing CachyOS this morning. When I try installing with KDE, the system will hang on a black screen with a white cursor. I cannot change to the terminal when in this state.

When I trying installing with GNOME, I can login but I do not have options to shutdown or reboot. GNOME also shows no applications whatsoever on the app screen. I cannot access the terminal to troubleshoot.

While watching the installation log, I have noticed during installation that there are a few errors where the installer is not able to find files on the repos:

2025-01-15 - 06:58:06 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: “pacstrap: error: failed retrieving file ‘gcc-libs-14.2.1+r134+gab884fffe3fc-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst’ from : The requested URL returned error: 404”
2025-01-15 - 06:58:06 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: “pacstrap: error: failed retrieving file ‘gcc-14.2.1+r134+gab884fffe3fc-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst’ from : The requested URL returned error: 404”
2025-01-15 - 06:58:06 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: “pacstrap: error: failed retrieving file ‘glibc-2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst’ from : The requested URL returned error: 404”
2025-01-15 - 06:58:06 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: “pacstrap: warning: too many errors from archlinux.cachyos.org, skipping for the remainder of this transaction”

I am not sure if this is related since the installation is able to finish.

I can chroot into the partition and run the bug report script: 9e1b204

At this point I am way past my expertise and need some help.

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This just shows the log of the live environment. There doesn’t seem to be anything strange here.

This is fine, it’s falling back to a different mirror.

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Ok, then any ideas why the installation is not working?

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To know that, you’d probably have to inspect the installation logs and look for errors that were not network/mirror related.

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Those were the only errors we saw in the log

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Well, I can say that I performed a flawless install yesterday (after repartitioning the wrong drive by error). Bear in mind, my system has no Nvidia.

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Seems I’m not the only one having issues:

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Wonder how I skated by with a reinstall yesterday morning?

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Probably installed before it hit cachy’s repos

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The package was pushed to stable 12 hours ago.

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Ah, and I installed about 30 hours ago…yep. Lucky me :wink:

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Tried reinstalling again and now it’s taking a very long time boot

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I`m having the very same issue. Any luck reinstalling?

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polkit update hasn’t reached repos yet. Please be patient. I will notify here when it’s pushed.

edit: It’s already pushed in Arch and may take a while to reach your local mirrors. It’s coming soon in CachyOS repos.

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Oh ok. Thanks @naim

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I think the update is on the repos now. Polkit 126-2. That matches what is on Arch’s repos

I was able to reinstall with no further issues

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