I am very interested in trying Obarun, and am running the LiveUSB (with JWM) on an old Dell Latitude E6400. Pleased with what I have seen so far, I am trying to install the XFCE flavor to a fresh system SSD. I have cleared a few hurdles, but am now finally stumped. Perhaps I am simply in over my head, and should throw in the towel. But, having gone as far as I can go on my own, I thought I'd take a shot with my initial post to this forum.
- When I tried to run the installer via the LiveUSB desktop launcher, nothing launched. I also tried the launcher in the JWM menu, but that didn't work either.
- I therefore opened the installer via the command line, using sudo obarun-install.
- I was greeted with a litany of "time warp" errors in the gpg key checks. I discovered that my system clock was using a date in year 2009, so I updated the date via the command line. I restarted the installer, and now got past the gpg checks.
- Using the assisted disk partitioning option, I chose to use the whole SSD, with a root partition and a swap partition.
- I eventually got the installer to run a great deal further, but it apparently does not reach its correct conclusion. I never reach a dialog to create a user account, etc. There are some errors indicated at the end of my install session (see below), and my SSD (installation target) will not boot. (The poor Dell PC just keeps trying, over and over.) I have tried the install several times, with the same results.
The tail end of my install session is shown below. If anyone can suggest why things are hung up, and what I might try in order to fix this, I would be much obliged.
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for atk:
:: Repository obextra
1) at-spi2-core
:: Repository extra
2) at-spi2-core
Enter a number (default=1):
warning: ignoring package systemd-libs-253.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "systemd-libs", a dependency of "btrfs-progs"
:: There are 4 providers available for jack:
:: Repository obextra
1) jack2 2) pipewire-jack
:: Repository extra
3) jack2 4) pipewire-jack
Enter a number (default=1):
:: There are 2 providers available for libpipewire-0.3.so=0-64:
:: Repository obextra
1) libpipewire
:: Repository extra
2) libpipewire
Enter a number (default=1):
warning: ignoring package systemd-libs-253.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "systemd-libs", a dependency of "btrfs-progs"
warning: cannot resolve "btrfs-progs", a dependency of "libblockdev"
warning: cannot resolve "libblockdev", a dependency of "udisks2"
warning: cannot resolve "udisks2", a dependency of "gvfs"
warning: ignoring package systemd-libs-253.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "systemd-libs", a dependency of "btrfs-progs"
warning: cannot resolve "btrfs-progs", a dependency of "libblockdev"
warning: cannot resolve "libblockdev", a dependency of "udisks2"
warning: cannot resolve "udisks2", a dependency of "gvfs"
warning: cannot resolve "gvfs=1.50.2", a dependency of "gvfs-smb"
:: The following packages cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
btrfs-progs gvfs gvfs-smb
:: Do you want to skip the above packages for this upgrade? [y/N]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'systemd-libs' required by btrfs-progs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'systemd-libs' required by btrfs-progs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'btrfs-progs' required by libblockdev
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libblockdev' required by udisks2
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'udisks2' required by gvfs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'systemd-libs' required by btrfs-progs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'btrfs-progs' required by libblockdev
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libblockdev' required by udisks2
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'udisks2' required by gvfs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'gvfs=1.50.2' required by gvfs-smb
obarun-install: fatal: Failed to install packages with pacman
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
oblive@ Ob66 ~ %
- When I tried to run the installer via the LiveUSB desktop launcher, nothing launched. I also tried the launcher in the JWM menu, but that didn't work either.
- I therefore opened the installer via the command line, using sudo obarun-install.
- I was greeted with a litany of "time warp" errors in the gpg key checks. I discovered that my system clock was using a date in year 2009, so I updated the date via the command line. I restarted the installer, and now got past the gpg checks.
- Using the assisted disk partitioning option, I chose to use the whole SSD, with a root partition and a swap partition.
- I eventually got the installer to run a great deal further, but it apparently does not reach its correct conclusion. I never reach a dialog to create a user account, etc. There are some errors indicated at the end of my install session (see below), and my SSD (installation target) will not boot. (The poor Dell PC just keeps trying, over and over.) I have tried the install several times, with the same results.
The tail end of my install session is shown below. If anyone can suggest why things are hung up, and what I might try in order to fix this, I would be much obliged.
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for atk:
:: Repository obextra
1) at-spi2-core
:: Repository extra
2) at-spi2-core
Enter a number (default=1):
warning: ignoring package systemd-libs-253.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "systemd-libs", a dependency of "btrfs-progs"
:: There are 4 providers available for jack:
:: Repository obextra
1) jack2 2) pipewire-jack
:: Repository extra
3) jack2 4) pipewire-jack
Enter a number (default=1):
:: There are 2 providers available for libpipewire-0.3.so=0-64:
:: Repository obextra
1) libpipewire
:: Repository extra
2) libpipewire
Enter a number (default=1):
warning: ignoring package systemd-libs-253.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "systemd-libs", a dependency of "btrfs-progs"
warning: cannot resolve "btrfs-progs", a dependency of "libblockdev"
warning: cannot resolve "libblockdev", a dependency of "udisks2"
warning: cannot resolve "udisks2", a dependency of "gvfs"
warning: ignoring package systemd-libs-253.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "systemd-libs", a dependency of "btrfs-progs"
warning: cannot resolve "btrfs-progs", a dependency of "libblockdev"
warning: cannot resolve "libblockdev", a dependency of "udisks2"
warning: cannot resolve "udisks2", a dependency of "gvfs"
warning: cannot resolve "gvfs=1.50.2", a dependency of "gvfs-smb"
:: The following packages cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
btrfs-progs gvfs gvfs-smb
:: Do you want to skip the above packages for this upgrade? [y/N]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'systemd-libs' required by btrfs-progs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'systemd-libs' required by btrfs-progs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'btrfs-progs' required by libblockdev
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libblockdev' required by udisks2
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'udisks2' required by gvfs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'systemd-libs' required by btrfs-progs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'btrfs-progs' required by libblockdev
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libblockdev' required by udisks2
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'udisks2' required by gvfs
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'gvfs=1.50.2' required by gvfs-smb
obarun-install: fatal: Failed to install packages with pacman
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
oblive@ Ob66 ~ %