Hi everyone.
As some of you might have noticed, I am trying to build LFS on Solus.
Well, I am facing some technical problems. I am in the process of doing a fresh install (Running Solus 4.6 and no space left). And on EVERY try, I get “usysconf timeout after 300 seconds, no output”. I have reached out to the Solus community- no help. The steps did not work.
I tried:
Redo
Use a fresh ISO, redownload
Install with manual partitoning
Changing conf
Changing time in conf
Do you really mean the disk is full? If any partition uses 100% of its space that will cause a problem.
It is not clear… are you installing Solus or LFS?.. OK I looked at your post on Solus help… it is a Solus install.
It sounds like usysconf may have a bug (unlikely?). Can you try an older Solus version?
You say a VM install works. Think… what could be different HD versus VM? It must be partitions… are they full? … did you forget to mount something? Are they formatted same as VM? Did you choose the correct partition to install to ?.. it will be some embarassing mistake.
I prefer not to allow the installer to do anything with partitions… do it myself beforehand with gparted.
Dont install onto a partition that has files on it. Wipe it clean with a reformat beforehand.
The only difference is VM is BIOS and machine is UEFI. I just always selected delete and format on first try or gparted (PC goes berserk after first error, no WiFi adapters recognised, sudo reboot nothing, input output error, on installer only manual install available).
Well I reformated like 5 times, and if the Install won’t work, how can I put the vmlinuz?
The funny thing is that I worked out the install like before the errors with the same ISO. Then I forgot my password () so I needed to reinstall. And that’s where the problems started.
You are not giving us enough information.
Can you screenshot a gparted view of the disk and post it here?
Solus can not possibly use all of 256Gb?
Does the install finish?
Does Solus boot?
If it boots:
What messages do you get when it misbehaves?
Can you look at the dmesg file . Look for any messages about problems
What is in / and /boot? One of those should contain vmlinuz and initrd or pointers to them.
Can you run the smartctl disk check … there may be a disk problem
Can you run memcheck … there may be a ram problem
Did you checksum your download of Solus? … it may be corrupt … check it on the usb drive, ie the copy you are using to install
“The error “usysconf timeout after 300 seconds” during a Solus installation indicates that the usysconf run command, which handles post-installation triggers and system configuration, is taking longer than the default 300-second timeout to complete. This can occur due to various reasons, such as slow disk I/O, a large number of packages requiring configuration, or issues with the installation media or target drive.”
So you may have a disk problem… a near full or failing disk will slow things up.
First thing, if you have data on that disk copy it to somewhere else.
This may sound wrong, but can you try to install a totally different linux onto your system
Such as linux mint
I am suggesting this so we can tell if there is a hardware issue proventing the final stages.
If thiscworks and you ger mint installed, we can then go back to look at the version you really want. If it fails it lay give a clue as to what is wrong (i am thinking driver issues or graphics problems)
The error message implies that the installer is taking more than 300 seconds to configure because of some sort of disk problem.
If we believe the error message , you need to
run smartctl on that disk… you can do that from the Mint install Paul suggests, or from a live USB
check your disk partitioning with gparted… again from Mint or a live USB. Gparted has a check option for partitions. Check the partition sizes are adequate, and the type of filesystem is correct.
make sure you are mounting all necessary partitions… minimum is / and /boot/efi
it is possible that the partition table of your disk is corrupted. To fix that delete all the partitions , then remake them with gparted making sure you choose a gpt partition table ( gparted defaults to msdos). Make at least an EFI fat32 partition and linux ext4 partition. … make the partitions with gparted… dont rely on the Solus installer to do it.
OK, that is great… it eliminates disc problems.
So what does that Solus message mean?
Either out of space, or you are asking it to configure a huge number of packages and it times out, or a bug in Solus installer, or a corrupt copy of the .iso.
I dont know how to proceed from here.
You have to try something different. There are Solus/Budgie, Solus/Gnome and Solus/Plasma, and Solus/Xfce. Try a different one.
I need Solus, and I HATE MINT from my whole heart. The error is “Befehl /usr/sbin/usysconf konnte nicht innerhalb von 300 Sekunden abgeschlossen werden. Soll das Installationsprotokoll an eine Internetadresse gesendet werden?" (Command /usr/sbin/usysconf could not be completed in 300 seconds, should the log be sent to an internet domain?)
) so I needed to reinstall. And that’s where the problems started.