Installing cachyos from the desktop 260308 ISO hangs when the installation prompts to select the repo for iptables-nft in the installer UI. You can’t react to the prompt so the install is stuck indefinitely.
ISO - 260308
Desktop - Hyprland + Niri
Selection - Default + printing options
Filesystem: btrfs
Are you able to film the installation process with your phone and upload the video?
Here you go. I apologise for any wheezy breathing
It would be defaulted and carry on fine if the call to pacman had --noconfirm
Does the Live USB work? Have you tried another distro like ZorinOS 18? Also, trying connecting to Ethernet during installation instead of WIFI.
The issue is about the default packages included in the installer and the prompt that currently necessitates - a prompt the user seemingly cannot interact with.
This is not a problem of the live environment.
The thing is .. current repos do not have multiple choices for iptables-nft.
It is a package that no longer exists - it has been replaced by just iptables that does the same thing (takes old iptables arguments but uses nftables on the backend).
So the exchange prompt should probably not be happening at all.
Have you tried sorting mirrors first?
This is the live USB, and it is running on ethernet.
On a different machines I have already running cachyos I was able to resolves this both manually and with –noconfirm. When I search iptables-nft on a running install pacman returns iptables in both cachy and core, which I assume is an aliasing of some kind for compatibility.
On the live USB the same search only returns iptables in core.
I ran cachyos-rate-mirrors and reflector on separate runs before attempting install and that doesn’t fix it. The installer runs rate-mirrors as part of it’s initialisation process, making anything I pre-configure moot.
I agree that it is not a fault in the live environment and installer per-se, but because the installer is not handling this circumstance gracefully then the primary means of installing the OS is not working. It’s an annoyance for me (back on ubuntu on that box. god it’s slow), and a major issue for any new users trying out cachyos.
Not exactly - its part of how Cachy works with its own repos on top of Arch’s.
Its ostensibly the same package except the cachy/architecture one has been built with optimizations.
But as far as the package manager is concerned theres just 2 versions of one package (iptables) that can both provide iptables-nft, and should have an obvious priority with no selection required at all. While also nothing should probably be trying to install iptables-nft either as its no longer a valid package and last I looked its not explicitly part of the package list.
That is why I asked about the mirror sorting.
Any other extra information might be helpful - if theres something to fix is easier to do when we know where to look. In this case specifically why iptables-nft is being looked for. My first guess would have been something like ufw but it doesnt depend on that either.
It’s referenced in /etc/calamares/modules/pacstrap.conf . I have tried removing it but the installer overwrites it with (I think) calamares-config/etc/calamares/modules/pacstrap.conf at systemd-boot-3.3 · CachyOS/calamares-config · GitHub when the installer starts up.
Digging further I’ve found that directly calling calamares doesn’t overwrite the config in /etc/ but calamares-online.sh does.
Removing the reference to iptables-nft and running calamares from a terminal still fails in the same way so it’s a dependency of something as well as implicitly installed.
I’ll go dependency hunting after work
Addendum: @glennguy I tried RebornOS and that doesn’t have the same issue, but the default packags set is quite different
Thats not current.
But it did point out that its similarly in the pacstrap file of what is current;
I can get a PR on that when I have a moment.
EDIT.
And thats done.
Is there a way I can run a test iso for you with this change?
(Unrelated side note: having bootstrapped cachyos off rebornos, your kernels are so much faster than arch vanilla it’s mind melting. Great work)
Lovely job. I’ve installed successfully from the current iso. Thank you
Sorry forgot to report back after the merge. 
Glad it worked out.