On Sat, May 19, 2018 10:07 am, Mike Keehan wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 01:57:06 -0700 (PDT) > [email protected] wrote:
>> Quick recap of the problem: >> >> When booting and heading to install everything is Great. Starting >> install everything is Great until [qubes-mgmt-salt-base-topd-] >> [782/1018] (sometimes it's [786/1018] [787/1018] [794/1018] >> [796/1018] but always this file in front >> [qubes-mgmt-salt-base-topd-]) just stops the install, doesn't through >> an error or freeze up, just stops installing. Yes it has been left >> for hours at that stage, you can hear the HHD stop spinning and the >> light that represents it is being written on turns off. One time it >> made it past [796-1018] and threw an error (Tried install via 7 >> different USB's and writing dd in Rufus and Fedora) for the first >> time. Never copied the error and it never showed up again. It >> pertained to [salt-master-2017.7.1-1.fc25.noarch.rpm] failing or some >> sort (carelessness to not document is fully noted). Had hoped the dd from Fedora would resolve this! >> Tried to create a Live Bootable using USB as HD with the Laptop in >> question and it failed at the exact same point [782/1018] as it had >> numerous times with the 1TB HDD. Created and a Live Bootable using a >> different computer with the same metrics, and fully booted with not >> even a hiccup. Good test. >> If you can answer any of these questions that would be great: What >> does [qubes-mgmt-salt-base-topd] correlate with? Or even "Salt"? To oversimplify a bit- Salt is a scripting language that Qubes uses. > If it has nVidia graphics, try turning it off/blacklisting it. Been > discussed many times on this list. Nvidia can cause a hang half-way through installing files? Agree it seems worth a try, but hadn't heard that before. Erin, are you letting the Qubes installer use the entire disk, and choosing the "I want to make space available" option and deleting all the existing partitions? If not, try that, but realize of course it will erase everything on the hard drive. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/96a839269824ee95e620e46de7ea69bf%40elude.in. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
