Can`t finish installation

[Tim CowChip]

I had a similar experience with a broken partition table on my USB installation disk. This post may be of some help , where overwriting the first 4096 sectors of my usb drive and recreating a new partition table did the trick for me.

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=4096

[ochen_bolen]

I`ve connected USB stick directly to one of USB ports, removed my NVIDIA 9600 GT and enabled embedded Intel GMA 3100 and waiting for 1 hour and 43 minutes but result is the same.

This is what I get when launched installer from konsole (with help of kdesu):

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one@salixlive:~$ kdesu /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/process.cpp : 295 ]  Running "/bin/su"
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Password: "
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/process.cpp : 295 ]  Running "/bin/su"
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Password: "
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::WaitSlave: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/process.cpp : 381 ]  Child pid 3827
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line ""
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "kdesu_stub"
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/process.cpp : 295 ]  Running "/bin/su"
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Password: "
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::WaitSlave: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/process.cpp : 381 ]  Child pid 3829
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line ""
kdesu(3821)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [
/tmp/kdelibs-4.5.5/kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "kdesu_stub"

And this when I launched installer program from root session

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root[one]# /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py
No protocol specified
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57:
GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
	/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning: invalid (NULL)
	pointer instance
	  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning:
	  g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE
(instance)' failed
  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
  IA__gtk_settings_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
  failed
    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning: g_object_get:
	assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
	  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
	  IA__gdk_pango_context_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN
	  (screen)' failed
	    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
		/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
		pango_context_set_font_description: assertion `context != NULL'
		failed
		  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")                                        
		  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
		  pango_context_set_base_dir: assertion `context != NULL' failed           
		    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")                                        
			/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
			pango_context_set_language: assertion `context != NULL'
			failed           
			  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")                                        
			  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
			  pango_layout_new: assertion `context != NULL' failed                     
			    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")                                        
				/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
				pango_layout_set_attributes: assertion `layout != NULL'
				failed           
				  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")                                        
				  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
				  pango_layout_set_text: assertion `layout != NULL'
				  failed                 
				    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
					/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
					pango_layout_get_unknown_glyphs_count: assertion
					`PANGO_IS_LAYOUT (layout)' failed
					  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
					  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning:
					  g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)'
					  failed
					    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
						/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning:
						value "TRUE" of type `gboolean' is invalid or
						out of range for property `visible' of type
						`gboolean'
						  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
						  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
						  GtkWarning: IA__gdk_cursor_new_for_display:
						  assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
						    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
							/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
							PangoWarning:
pango_layout_set_single_paragraph_mode: assertion `PANGO_IS_LAYOUT
(layout)' failed
  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
  pango_layout_set_ellipsize: assertion `PANGO_IS_LAYOUT (layout)'
  failed
    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
	pango_layout_set_width: assertion `layout != NULL' failed
	  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
	  pango_layout_set_wrap: assertion `PANGO_IS_LAYOUT (layout)' failed
	    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
		/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
		pango_layout_set_alignment: assertion `layout != NULL' failed
		  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
		  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
		  pango_layout_get_pixel_extents: assertion `PANGO_IS_LAYOUT
		  (layout)' failed
		    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
			/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
			IA__gtk_window_set_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN
(screen)' failed
  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning: Screen for GtkWindow
  not set; you must always set
  a screen for a GtkWindow before using the window
    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: PangoWarning:
	pango_layout_get_extents: assertion `layout != NULL' failed
	  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
	  IA__gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN
	  (screen)' failed
	    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
		/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
		IA__gtk_icon_size_lookup_for_settings: assertion
		`GTK_IS_SETTINGS (settings)' failed
		  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
		  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning: Invalid icon
		  size 4

		    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
			/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
			IA__gtk_icon_theme_load_icon: assertion `GTK_IS_ICON_THEME
			(icon_theme)' failed
			  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
			  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning: Error
			  loading theme icon 'system-run' for stock: 
			    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
				/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
				gtkstyle.c:2358: invalid icon size '4'
				  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
				  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
				  IA__gtk_style_render_icon: assertion `pixbuf != NULL'
				  failed
				    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
					/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning:
					g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)'
					failed
					  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
					  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: Warning:
					  g_error_free: assertion `error != NULL' failed
					    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
						/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
						GtkWarning: Error loading theme icon
						'image-missing' for stock: 
						  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
						  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
						  GtkWarning: IA__gdk_screen_get_display:
						  assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
						    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
							/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
							GtkWarning: IA__gdk_display_get_pointer:
							assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
							  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
							  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
							  GtkWarning: IA__gdk_screen_get_n_monitors:
							  assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
							    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
								/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64:
								GtkWarning:
IA__gdk_screen_get_monitor_geometry: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
failed
  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
  IA__gdk_screen_get_default_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN
(screen)' failed
  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
  IA__gdk_colormap_get_visual: assertion `GDK_IS_COLORMAP (colormap)'
  failed
    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
	IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
	failed
	  builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
	  /usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:64: GtkWarning:
	  IA__gdk_window_new: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (parent)' failed
	    builder.add_from_file("/usr/share/salix-live-installer/salix-live-installer.glade")
		Segmentation fault
		root[one]#

I think that there is so much messages about diplay because I need to give some command to X to esealy launch X applications from one more session inside already working.

Nothing interest in both cases.

I had a similar experience with a broken partition table on my USB installation disk. This post may be of some help , where overwriting the first 4096 sectors of my usb drive and recreating a new partition table did the trick for me.

This is not my case. I checked.

[gapan]

@ochen_bolen

This could be a bug in the installer that shows up with your specific hardware setup. Provide the output of

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fdisk -l
mount

Also post any errors that might show up when running the installer from a root terminal. To run any GUI app as another user in KDE, you'll have to run

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xhost +

as the normal user first.

BTW, if you used the standard installation CD instead of the live CD, it would certainly work, but it would be nice to find out what the problem is with the live installer.

[ochen_bolen]

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root[one]# fdisk -l 

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312579695 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00056f38

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    40482815    20241376+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2        40483861   312575999   136046069+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5        40483863   285945855   122730996+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6       285957063   303001599     8522268+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7       303003648   312575999     4786176   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312579695 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x17961795

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            2048   308387839   154192896    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2       308387840   312578047     2095104   82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/sdc: 1031 MB, 1031798784 bytes
113 heads, 51 sectors/track, 349 cylinders, total 2015232 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000824da

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *        2048     2015231     1006592    b  W95 FAT32                                                            
root[one]#


root[one]# mount                                                                                                             
none on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=16c89ba9e8260e6c,noplink,nowarn_perm)                                                    
proc on /proc type proc (rw)                                                                                                 
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)                                                                                                
/dev/sda5 on /media/data type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)                         
root[one]#

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one@salixlive:~$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
one@salixlive:~$ su root
Password: 
root[one]# salix-live-installer.py 
cp: cannot stat `/etc/localtime-copied-from': No such file or directory
Stopping ntpd...

Sat Jun 30 09:51:54 UTC 2012
/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:2396: GtkWarning: IA__gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_COLORMAP (colormap)' failed
  gtk.main()
/usr/sbin/salix-live-installer.py:2396: GtkWarning: IA__gdk_x11_visual_get_xvisual: assertion `visual != NULL' failed
  gtk.main()
umount: /dev/sdb1: not mounted
mkfs.reiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

A pair of credits:
Chris Mason wrote the journaling code for V3,  which was enormously more useful
to users than just waiting until  we could create a wandering log filesystem as
Hans would have unwisely done without him.
Jeff Mahoney optimized the bitmap  scanning code for V3,  and performed the big
endian cleanups. 

Vladimir Saveliev started as the most junior programmer on the team, and became
the lead programmer.  He is now an experienced highly productive programmer. He
wrote the extent  handling code for Reiser4,  plus parts of  the balancing code 
and file write and file read.


Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 2.6.37.6 is running.
Format 3.6 with standard journal
Count of blocks on the device: 38548224
Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 9388
Blocksize: 4096
Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18)
Journal Max transaction length 1024
inode generation number: 0
UUID: b5b28dfe-e1a2-4bb7-b5e1-7d5476ef58e5
Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%
Syncing..ok
ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/sdb1.
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_soliddevice.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_soliddevice.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_statusnotifieritem.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_statusnotifieritem.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_systemmonitor.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_systemmonitor.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_tasks.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_tasks.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_time.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_time.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_weather.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_weather.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_packagestructure_dashboard.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_packagestructure_dashboard.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_packagestructure_web.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_packagestructure_web.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_runnerscript_javascript.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_runnerscript_javascript.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_wallpaper_color.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_wallpaper_color.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_wallpaper_image.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_wallpaper_image.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/kde3supportwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/kde3supportwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/kdewidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/kdewidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/ksignalplotterwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/ksignalplotterwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/ksysguardlsofwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/ksysguardlsofwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/salt/mnt/modules/02-basic/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/ksysguardwidgets.so': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/mnt/sdb1/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/designer/ksysguardwidgets.so': Input/output error

Looks like I need new image of salix installer or new USB flash drive.

And a screen-shot http://saveimg.ru/show-image.php?id=20b ... 27b8b36175