Phavo Gnome Clean Install Fails

[stphnlwlsh]

AMD Ryzen 5, NVidia Geforce 1650

I run the live install with open source drivers, and try a clean install, but I get the below error. Not new to Linux, but new to Manjaro. What other information would be helpful on troubleshooting this?

Boost.Python error in job "unpackfs".

Command '['unsquashfs', '-l', '/run/miso/bootmnt/manjaro/x86_64/desktopfs.sfs']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

I’m typing this post from my other PC, but imagemagick is mentioned as part of the rest of the error message.

b'squashfs-root\nsquashfs-root/.manjaro-tools\nsquashfs-root/boot\nsquashfs-root/desktopfs-pkgs.txt\nsquashfs-root/etc\nsquashfs-root/etc/.gnome40new\nsquashfs-root/etc/.pwd.lock\nsquashfs-root/etc/ImageMagick-7\nsquashfs-root/etc/ImageMagick-7/colors.xml\nsqu
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 528, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,

Any thoughts on why this is failing? I should mention that a clean install of XFCE works just fine.

[El_Brujo]

Hi there, Welcome to the forum!

@stphnlwlsh

Not new to Linux, but new to Manjaro.

That statement is not in question.

However, in order to get proper assistance from our community, we recommend that you provide information from your system as per below:

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Also, I’ve noticed you reported another issue on an existing thread. See below.

GDM login screen doesn't show login fields

I’m also experiencing this issue. I was using Gnome just fine about a week ago, and this suddenly cropped up. I did a format and clean install and the issue persists on a cold boot. If my system sleeps/hibernates/suspends, the login icon shows up, but that’s not a great solution. I’m not entirely new to the Linux space, but I can’t even figure out how to troubleshoot this. I’ve tried dropping to TTY, but I get a single underscore character and nothing but CTL + ALT + DELETE can get me back to a…

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Thanks. Have fun!

[stphnlwlsh]

Apologies for the bump. I can open a separate thread when needed on that one. For now just trying to get a good install on Gnome.

From the live boot:

System:
  Kernel: 5.13.12-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_GNOME_2111 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1 
  Desktop: GNOME 40.4 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.1 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG X570 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C37) v: 2.0 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: A.A0 date: 09/07/2020 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.27 GiB used: 1.68 GiB (5.4%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: 
  L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 86438 
  Speed: 3599 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 3599 2: 2054 3: 2202 4: 2197 5: 2056 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2197 9: 3599 
  10: 2054 11: 2054 12: 2200 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm 
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc 
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq 
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse 
  pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni 
  skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp 
  succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl 
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f82 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: wayland server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: nouveau note: n/a (using device driver) - try sudo/root 
  display-ID: 0 resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV167 v: 4.3 Mesa 21.2.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.12-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.33 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 
  bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  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: 1.03 TiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT525MX300SSD1 
  size: 489.05 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: R031 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB 
  size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST3320813AS 
  size: 298.09 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC6H scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB model: Mass Storage Device 
  size: 29.72 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A 
  serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found. 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 1024 MiB fs: vfat label: NO_LABEL 
  uuid: C5A8-AB71 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 64 GiB fs: btrfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 2d881620-b25d-4eaa-b102-f0915e888acd 
  ID-3: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49 size: 2.9 GiB fs: iso9660 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI 
  uuid: 0EB2-6D2B 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-3:2 info: Super Top microSD card reader (SY-T18) 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 14cd:1212 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 3-4:3 info: OpenMoko Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 
  type: HID,Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 150mA chip-ID: 1d50:6122 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-3: 3-5:4 info: Micro Star MYSTIC LIGHT type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 1462:7c37 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-4: 3-6:5 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-6.2:6 info: Corsair CORSAIR Lighting Node CORE type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 50mA 
  chip-ID: 1b1c:0c1a class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-7: 5-2:2 info: Realtek 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.1 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bda:5423 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-8: 5-2.1:3 info: Realtek RTS5411 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 0bda:5411 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-2.1.2:5 info: Yubicom Yubikey 4/5 OTP+U2F+CCID 
  type: Keyboard,HID,Smart Card driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 
  rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 30mA chip-ID: 1050:0407 class-ID: 0b00 
  Device-2: 5-2.1.3:7 info: Microchip LUXAFOR FLAG type: HID 
  driver: hid-led,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA 
  chip-ID: 04d8:f372 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 5-2.1.4:9 info: Realtek BillBoard Device type: Billboard 
  driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bda:5450 
  class-ID: 1100 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-9: 5-2.4:4 info: Realtek RTS5411 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 0bda:5411 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-2.4.3:12 info: Elecom TrackBall Mouse M-DPT1MR Wired 
  type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 056e:0131 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 5-2.4.4:13 info: Realtek BillBoard Device type: Billboard 
  driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bda:5450 
  class-ID: 1100 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-10: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 
  speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-11: 6-1:2 info: Realtek 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 
  speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 0bda:0423 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 32.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 309 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1186 lib: 294 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh 
  v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.06 

Not sure how much is relevant from dmesg, but there were a handful of these errors:

[   10.454749] input: HD-Audio Generic Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:2f:00.4/sound/card1/input21
[   10.534471] MCE: In-kernel MCE decoding enabled.
[   10.703958] usb 5-2.4.1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[   10.813847] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain package
[   10.813849] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain core

Then this toward the bottom

[  475.162102] BTRFS info (device sda2): disk space caching is enabled
[  475.162105] BTRFS info (device sda2): has skinny extents
[  475.162106] BTRFS info (device sda2): flagging fs with big metadata feature
[  475.163910] BTRFS info (device sda2): enabling ssd optimizations
[  475.164089] BTRFS info (device sda2): checking UUID tree
[  475.219710] BTRFS info (device sda2): disk space caching is enabled
[  475.219714] BTRFS info (device sda2): has skinny extents
[  475.221546] BTRFS info (device sda2): enabling ssd optimizations
[  475.355657] BTRFS info (device dm-0): disk space caching is enabled
[  475.355660] BTRFS info (device dm-0): has skinny extents
[  475.355661] BTRFS info (device dm-0): flagging fs with big metadata feature
[  475.357525] BTRFS info (device dm-0): enabling ssd optimizations
[  475.357696] BTRFS info (device dm-0): checking UUID tree
[  510.086208] SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression error: 14
[  510.086213] SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[  510.086214] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x5af1bfb5: -5
[  510.086216] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af1bfb3]
[  510.086217] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0xf6201f06
[  510.086242] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x5af23e43: -5
[  510.086244] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af23e41]
[  510.086244] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x174ae1572
[  510.086329] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af23e41]
[  510.086330] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x174ae1a12
[  510.086355] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af23e41]
[  510.086357] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x174ae1a5a
[  510.086364] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af23e41]
[  510.086365] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x174ae1c1a
[  510.086465] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x5af27aae: -5
[  510.086466] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af27aac]
[  510.086467] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x1b1191866
[  510.086490] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x5af2b7b8: -5
[  510.086491] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af2b7b6]
[  510.086492] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x1ee23188b
[  510.086519] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x2148f1f3f
[  510.088121] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x5af2ed67: -5
[  510.088123] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af2ed65]
[  510.088123] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x223d2191f
[  510.088129] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af2ed65]
[  510.088130] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x223d21a9c
[  510.088134] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af2ed65]
[  510.088135] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x223d21c1c
[  510.088149] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x5af2f4c3: -5
[  510.088150] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af2f4c1]
[  510.088151] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x22b2e013c
[  510.088945] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry [5af2f4c1]
[  510.088947] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode 0x22b2e197c
[  731.292414] audit: type=1101 audit(1630461948.409:170): pid=6917 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 msg='op=PAM:accounting grantors=pam_unix,pam_permit,pam_time acct="manjaro" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/0 res=success'
[  731.292496] audit: type=1110 audit(1630461948.409:171): pid=6917 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_env,pam_fprintd acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/0 res=success'
[  731.294495] audit: type=1105 audit(1630461948.412:172): pid=6917 uid=1000 auid=1000 ses=2 msg='op=PAM:session_open grantors=pam_limits,pam_unix,pam_permit acct="root" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" hostname=? addr=? terminal=/dev/pts/0 res=success'

What else might be helpful for troubleshooting?

[Fabby]

Welcome to Manjaro!

@stphnlwlsh

Boost.Python error in job "unpackfs".

Command '['unsquashfs', '-l', '/run/miso/bootmnt/manjaro/x86_64/desktopfs.sfs']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

• Looks like a dodgy download: did you verify the SHA1 of your .iso?

@stphnlwlsh

NVidia Geforce 1650

@stphnlwlsh

with open source drivers

• Better take the proprietary ones as nouveau is good for older cards, but as nVidia doesn’t publish its source code, the Nouveau Team has to reverse-engineer everything so they’re playing catch-up all the time…

[stphnlwlsh]

Checksum and GPG checked out for both full and minimal. I tried the full and the minimal installs as plain vanilla for partitioning as could be had. Ideally, I’d like to go with a partioned home directory, but to eliminate potential issues, I’m doing nothing manual. No swap either for these attempts.

Minimal installed just fine as of this morning. Although it still suffers from the same (and separate) GDM login issue mentioned earlier.

[stphnlwlsh]

Just as a follow up to this. I couldn’t figure the issue out after a couple of days of troubleshooting. I just installed XFCE and moved on as this is my primary machine.