Black screen when installing Nvidia version
I tried to install the nvidia version onto my desktop and after selecting 'install bazzite' on the text menu, the typical series of lines come up but it then goes blank and I cannot progress any further with the install
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try select troubleshoot --> safe graphics
from the menu
only other workaround i can think of with nvidia
Will give it a try later, thanks
Now getting this error. RAM related? Not sure why it's busy
I'm more concerned with the getfilesystemencoding error in the stack trace. Is this a dual-boot setup with Windows? If so boot into Windows and select restart from Windows rather than shutting down, if you shut it down it semi hibernates the machine rather than shutting down fully. I think this locks the drive fully and the installer cannot read the start of the disk. That's just a hunch though
Looks like my assuption was completely wrong. Found this thread. It looks like if you don't have UTF8 compatible disk partition labels, you might get that error that you are seeing https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/all-fedora-versions-fail-to-install/92568/2
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All Fedora versions fail to install
You have a device property containing invalid UTF-8, which python infamously doesn’t tolerate well. From the comments on that issue, this may ultimately be caused by a kernel bug. Can you try running this python code, tweaked slightly from the snippet in the issue? #!/usr/bin/python3 import pyudev context = pyudev.Context() try: for dev...
Unless you have a device with slow startup time (HDD instead of SSD) might be better to just open cmd (administrator) and type powercfg.exe /h off to prevent this from happening in the future
Managed to reproduce the error you are getting. Notice the accent on the e in the partition name for /dev/sda4 (I called the partition "Héllo") and I can reproduce your error. So the solution is to boot into something like Linux Mint and change any partition labels that have unusual characters in the partition names.
I was completely wrong about Windows Hibernate, but that's a good solution to getting rid of annoying hibernate issues
I was about to say that if its a windows hibernation thing it will just give "NTFS partition is in an unsafe state" when you load into grub
I think a right click rename in windows changes the label too, so i think that's what the problem is here.
Windows doesn't use UTF-8 by default for character encoding, and then UTF-8 gets an error because it expect a UTF format
still uses ANSI to this day for anything system related
I couldn't reproduce it by changing the drive label in Windows. Not sure if you can change the partition name from within Windows
Drive label automatically changes if you use Windows Explorer->This Computer->Right click disk->Rename
but not if he has any hidden drives (partitions)
Sorry yes I was playing a game. That's exactly what @Linus Xu ran me through and am greatful. Not sure if there is anything you guys can do to streamline it though. I feel like its more a 'user error' scenario
We messed about with gdisk on a live environment and got it going
There could be something done to make label read errors non-destructive, not sure, but seems like the whole OS not booting because a label error is a bit much
Yeah im guessing it scans all the drives and if 1 isn't compatible, it refuses to load the installer, even if you aren't installing to said drive
Bit annoying but good to know I guess. It also flagged errors on normal fedora 40 too
I wouldn't call it a user error, might be worth logging it in https://bugzilla.redhat.com something that should get fixed upstream. Definately something the installer should handle
It atleast got to the gui installer but it said an unknown error occured and it would only allow me to debug it or quit, wouldnt progress
This was for Fedora 40 Kenoite
Code 1 error message?
There wasn't a specific error. I gave me a wall of text and the prompt was along the lines of 'unkown error, here is the logs, see what it is' kind of thing but I honestly didn't know what I was looking at
So not this?
Nope not that. There was a drop down box and when I clicked it, a text box appeared with a full log of everything that happened. This was between the gui loading up but occured before I could select a language
Could you record a video with your phone? Will be easier to see the error
Ah sorry I can't. The problem is already fixed. You know how you were able to recreate my error? Try doing the same thing but load Fedora 40 Kenoite and installing it? That's how it occured for me
Installing bazzite would give me the black screen you got, fedora 40 Kenoite would give me the error in the gui
ohhhh sorry thought you were still having issues. Glad you came right. This error message right?
Yep that's the one I had on bazzite correct. Are you able to access locked channels?
https://discordapp.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1300653374915608637
if it works, have a look at that if that might be any help? I was just along for the ride hahaha
I've been working on trying to find and reproduce all the weird and wonderful installer issuers. So far this has been one of the weirder ones
Very helpful thank you
gdisk should work on windows
Took the detour there since I wanted to reproduce the python calls that led to the error and I wasn’t sure where the characters ultimately are