FS#19665 - missing /mnt/etc directory at "Configure System" step in installation

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Bruce Frederiksen (dangyogi) - Monday, 31 May 2010, 20:32 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 08 December 2010, 20:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2010.05
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Trying to install Arch Linux, the /mnt/etc directory is missing during the "Configure System" step.

I am doing the "net" install (rather than "CD") of the 2010.05 i686 system into a VirtualBox VM with 20G HDD.

I did the auto partitioning, increasing swap space to 1024, / of 5G to 7.5G, /home the rest. Some of the trials were with 8G HDD with no difference in the outcome. I tried this both with reiserfs and ext4 filesystems with the same results.

I select the "vi" editor.

There is a thread on the forum with the same problem but marked solved as they had created an extra partition. In this case, I did not create any extra partitions. I just used the auto partitioning starting with a blank HDD (under VirtualBox).

During the "Configure System" step, /mnt is mounted to what looks like a root filesystem, but there is no etc directory. Also /mnt/home is mounted and /mnt/boot is mounted. The partitions are sda1 boot, sda2 swap, sda3 root, sda4 home.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Wednesday, 08 December 2010, 20:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#15854 
Comment by Bruce Frederiksen (dangyogi) - Wednesday, 02 June 2010, 00:42 GMT
I added a -d option in the /arch/setup script on the call to aif to get a log file.

After running this, I have attached both the aif.log and pacman.log from /var/log/aif.

Notice that even though errors were reported in the pacman.log, the final message is a success message (no errors were reported to the screen).

Hope this helps!
   aif.log (14 KiB)
   pacman.log (9.4 KiB)
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 08 December 2010, 20:32 GMT
Hi Bruce,
the '/etc' directory (and a bunch more) is contained within the filesystem package.
as you can see from the pacman.log, no package got installed, which is why you have no /mnt/etc.

The real problem is that package installation failed, but yet aif reported all was ok and continued. that issue is described in ticket  FS#15854 

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