Installation wizard is waiting for a module for a while

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I would like to install the current software on another storage device.
Thus I started my computer from the file “manjaro-kde-21.0.7-210614-linux510.iso” by the means of the boot system “Ventoy 1.0.50”.
Now I wonder why the installation tool presents unexpected behaviour on the first wizard page.

[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo calamares --debug
…
20:21:02 [6]: Calamares::Settings::Settings(const QString&, bool)
    Using Calamares settings file at "/etc/calamares/settings.conf" 
WARNING:     ..  Required settings.conf key hide-back-and-next-during-exec is missing. 
20:21:02 [6]: void Logger::setupLogfile()
    Using log file: "/root/.cache/calamares/session.log" 
20:21:02 [6]: void CalamaresApplication::init()
    Calamares version: 3.2.40-2 
…
20:21:04 [6]: Calamares::RequirementsList GeneralRequirements::checkRequirements()
…
     enoughStorage :   true 
…
     enoughRam :   true 
…
20:21:04 [6]: void Calamares::RequirementsChecker::addCheckedRequirements(Calamares::Module*)
    Got 5 requirement results from "welcome" 
20:21:05 [6]: void Calamares::RequirementsChecker::reportProgress()
    Remaining modules: 1 
     "partition" 
…

Can any more improvements be achieved for the affected software aspects?

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Does your internal disk use LVM?

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Yes. - I am using logical volume management for my storage devices for some years.
:thinking: Should the tool “calamares” handle the involved partitions for further installation attempts?

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I have very little experience with LVM itself but has been doing some playaround with various pen-testing distributions.

Kali Linux is setting up LVM and when I tried to replace Kali with a customized Manjaro (tried combining Manjaro with BlackArch repo - don’t replicate - it is a pain) it noted the Calamares installler hanging for a long time seemed like indefinite.

Now that is some time ago - and my memory is not what it used to be. From time to time the topic is brought up and it may have been solved - but from your topic it appears Calamares is not there yet.

If I recall this correct when Calamares finally loaded it displayed two disks which was easily mistaken - the one being the LVM - the other being the physical disk.

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I was waiting on the graphical user interface for a while so that the installation tool would let me configure the partitions for my needs.

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:thinking: Would you like to point any development repositories out which would be helpful for testing the software behaviour of installation tool versions in more detailed ways?

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How do you think about to take another look at the collaboration with the KDE partition manager core library? :thinking:

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Would you like to discuss any execution durations according to software tools like the following?

  1. blockdev
  2. lsblk
  3. lvm
  4. sfdisk
  5. smartctl
  6. udevadm
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Disconnect your harddisk, get a new one and don’t use LVM. It is not well supported when using Calamares as installer.

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I did this occasionally before.

This happened for the reported software installation attempt.

I do not like this suggestion.

Would you like to reconsider data processing algorithms (according to the implementation in the function “FileSystem::detectMountPoint” for example)? :thinking:

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