FS#68605 - archiso claims successful installation when it was not

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Yaroslav Nikitenko (ynikitenko) - Friday, 13 November 2020, 08:33 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 13 November 2020, 14:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I tried to install using the most recent archiso burnt on a USB.
The Zen installer said that all was installed correctly. However, all the packages resided in /var/cache/pacman/pkg, and nothing was in /bin. This led to further problems (when I manually chroot-ed, it refused, because there was no /bin/{bash,zsh, etc}).
I found the reason and reported a bug here, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68604.

But I think that in case of errors the installer must report that there were errors, not say that the installation was successful. I also could not boot later (because I erroneously installed UEFI in Legacy mode), but I'm not sure the installer would be able to notice that.

Sorry, I don't know whether it should belong to "Zen installer" bugs. Please move it there if needed.

* package version(s)
2020.11.01
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Friday, 13 November 2020, 14:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  OP request: Mistake in the iso used.
Comment by Yaroslav Nikitenko (ynikitenko) - Friday, 13 November 2020, 13:43 GMT
So, I found out that I mistakenly used an old Zen installer (in another branch they already explained that this is a side-project, not supported here) instead of a recent archiso. Sorry for disturbing, closing this.

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