For my Leap 15.6’installs, I use the same ISO DVD (official, checksumed, burned with SUSE imagewriter) and all installs went good … except one I’me stuck with (fresh install). On this device, first steps (detecting hardware, partitioning, …) is OK but when install started I get errors installing some very important packages. First filesystem, with “error unpacking of archive failed on file /var/mail;68c6cd1e : cpio : symlink failed-invalid argument” … then install failings with others packages like glibc-extra, docbook4 etc.
I try several times, with and without network/online repos but always the same.
I downloaded the iso the 2024/10/12 (happy birthday !)
But my previous installs with it always succeed. Some weeks ago, I also use the same DVD to rescue another system (no integrity problem).
Is there an similar known issue with the ISO that’s been solved since ?
So you checked the ISO after download (which is good, of course); but did you also check what imagewriter wrote? Maybe your USB stick is dying. Try another one.
Or maybe your RAM or your disk has developed hardware failures. It’s hard to tell; but it smells like a hardware malfunction.
@hui : I downloaded it in october but yes, I also checked and saw after my comment that the last edit of the ISO were in june 2024 (so my version is the latest).
@shundhammer : I confirm that the ISO after imagewriter’burning match the sha256 yet (re-checked for this install).
I really hope this isn’t about hardware. That was my fear too, before I managed installing 15.5.
I’ll try another fresh install with a USB stick.
@shundhammer : thanks for the detailed advices ! I already tested with smartmontools but I keep memtest86 for reference.
@mrmazda : Yes. I tried with / & /home in ext4 and /var in FAT, all on separates partitions. I intended to allocate the FAT space for sharing with a Win install.
Brilliant ! I think it’s a good catch : I realized that I avoided this /var specification on the fallback 15.5 install that succeed. So maybe this success isn’t related to Leap version nor recording medium (it would just be about classic keyboard-chair problem )
I’ll re-try 15.6 without this /var use this week.
/var/ on FAT caused symlink failed-invalid argument. All the OS must be on native filesystems. Only /boot/efi/ among “essential” filesystems can be FAT.
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