I wanted to make a persistent USB image and found Alma thanks to @philm. I also checked out @andreas85’s tutorial. Thus, I ran the following command in root after installing Alma and cloning its presets.
export ALMA_USER=dar ; alma create --presets ./alma/presets/xfce-manjaro
I tried it twice at the moment, both times it stopped for hours (I left it overnight) during installing packages.
This time it stopped at
(194/608) installing avahi [########################---------] 75%
while the other time it stopped at the 200-something package.
I didn’t like breaking from it the other time because I’m in root, and when I shut down the PC after the last time, it gave
[FAILED] Failed unmounting /home.
[FAILED] Failed unmounting /tmp/.tmpJBbzKD.
[FAILED] Failed unmounting /Temporary Directory /tmp.
and it kept trying to unmount them for hours on end till I had to unplug it. (I know, stupid!)
Edit: Here’s the inxi
command output. I’ll also try to understand dmesg
and/or journalctl
till someone reply.
System:
Kernel: 5.17.1-3-rt17-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-rt-x86_64
root=UUID=2acd979d-0c15-4b5e-9c03-b03b59fb8c93 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=cf2d2dcd-ce25-4873-b38b-6b2edc6ccf64
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProDesk 600 G1 TWR v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 18E7 serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: L01 v02.75 date: 05/04/2018
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard Dell WK636
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse Dell WM116
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 5.69 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (46.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-4570 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell family: 6
model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3065 high: 3193 min/max: 800/3600 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3188 2: 2689 3: 3193
4: 3193 bogomips: 25542
Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce
md_clear mmx monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand
rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx
vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: VGA-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 444x277mm (17.48x10.91")
s-diag: 523mm (20.6")
Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: Lenovo LEN LT2252pwA serial: <filter> built: 2014
res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65")
diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.4
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-3-rt17-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:153a class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
driver: rtl8192ee v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:818b class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.42 TiB used: 161.96 GiB (11.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD5000AVCS-612DY1 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0A01
scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DT 101 G2
size: 59.42 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 456.96 GiB size: 448.72 GiB (98.20%)
used: 36.66 GiB (8.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 2acd979d-0c15-4b5e-9c03-b03b59fb8c93
ID-2: /home raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.81 GiB (98.31%)
used: 124.01 GiB (13.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: Eris
uuid: c7581184-8813-4804-a5f3-d5e0cddd97dd
ID-3: /tmp/.tmpzy8ziG raw-size: 59.18 GiB size: 57.94 GiB (97.92%)
used: 1.3 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: N/A
uuid: 704dd6ed-d3ff-4df2-a358-3cac12884a3b
ID-4: /tmp/.tmpzy8ziG/boot raw-size: 250 MiB size: 246.1 MiB (98.46%)
used: 1 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: N/A
uuid: B282-10DD
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 2.8 MiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: swap
uuid: cf2d2dcd-ce25-4873-b38b-6b2edc6ccf64
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 1024 KiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:8008 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:8000 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-5:13 info: Kingston DT101 G2 type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA
chip-ID: 0951:1642 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-6:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
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Processes: 2145 Uptime: 11h 50m wakeups: 64 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1405
lib: 383 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.16
Should I stop the current Alma session? And how? Should I use Alma again?