I've resorted to completely re-installing Obarun from the ground up. I completely wiped all vestiges of the old install, and started with completely empty partitions.
Upon running the install script, I came across a fault that wasn't there the previous time I installed it, a little over two weeks ago: this time, upon entering the root password in the install script, it crashes out:
Upon running the install script, I came across a fault that wasn't there the previous time I installed it, a little over two weeks ago: this time, upon entering the root password in the install script, it crashes out:
passwd: Module is unknown
passwd: password unchanged
obarun-install: fatal: unable to set the root password
obarun-install: info: Cleaning up
obarun-install: info: Killing process
obarun-install: info: Umount /mnt
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted filesystem on /mnt
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/proc
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/sys
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/dev/pts
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/dev/shm
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/run
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/tmp
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/dev
obarun-install: tracing: Check mounted /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg
obarun-install: info: Restore your shell options
This behavior has been described before on this forum [here: https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?id=1182], and was solved by updating pam. However, attempting to update pam fails:
/usr/bin/opentmpfiles.sh: line 388: /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload: Read-only file system
error: command failed to execute correctly
This seems to be a new behavior in the installer. I hope there is a solid solution.