I recently wanted to install Manjaro KDE onto a 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD, however I have been having a lot of trouble with this. Every time I try to install Manjaro the installation either hangs while unpacking image 1/2, fails with rsync error code 11, or fails with External command finished with errors.
I have tried to install various versions of Manjaro KDE and all fail (though the occurrence of each specific error changes depending on which version used). I have used the most recent unstable version, the version currently linked on manjaro.org, and an older version from halfway through May last year. For all I used the same USB with Ventoy installed, and have checked the checksums using Ventoy’s built-in tools. The error dump for my last attempt with the most recent build can be found here.
I have disabled secure boot and have passed ‘nomodeset’ as argument to the instance on the bootable drive because otherwise I only get a black screen. I have also successfully installed Manjaro on this device in January of this year, though on a different drive.
Where this errors showed up? Could you successfull format your drive with the right filesystem?
Maybe the Nvme is unsupported or has dmg…?
I would first try to boot from a liveboot and try to create a single partition and copy+paste some random files on the drive, to check if the drive is okay.
It doesn’t seem to be an option in my UEFI, I have checked multiple times so I’d hope I haven’t missed it.
Formatting seems to work just fine, and (using the formatting one of my installation attempts has left me) I can copy into the drive properly, though it is read only without using sudo.
I had thought of it being faulty, though not of it overheating. Running the install while using system monitor to keep track of the temp though, they seemed fine until I get the error when it drops to 0.0 °C. After that, well:
Since those are supposed to be the temps, I suppose that I did get a bad drive, yeah. (Unless this is some known other failure mode?) Curious that it seemed to behave normally when transferring files to it and reading those though.
Either way, thank you, I guess I’ll be RMA’ing it.
