Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

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tslater2006

Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by tslater2006 »

Morning everyone,

I just recently 'discovered' Linux Mint from a friend of mine and I'm trying to give it a shot. Due to my PC Setup (a 60GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD) I would like to use the Custom install where I mount my partitions manually. I have made partitions for /, /boot, /home, /usr. I also have another for swap space. I mount the partitions using mount /dev/sda1 /target... mount /dev/sda2 /target/boot... etc.

Once they're mounted I click "Forward" on the installer, it asks where to install GRUB, I'm not really sure what to pick here but I select /dev/sda since that's the drive / and /boot are stored on. It then continues to install all of the files and I've verified it went onto the different drives as I wanted.

Next I need to make the fstab, I use sudo nano /target/etc/fstab... i put my UUIDs in and where they should mount to on boot and save. the issue i'm finding is that the "Forward" button is still greyed out and I cannot continue to finish the install. The installer stops at the "Installation is paused" section where the fstab needs to be made, and you can chroot to install other packages as needed. Is there some other condition the installer is looking for that I am missing? Any help or clarification would be greatly appreciated!

Also, nice forum you got here :)

EDIT: Not sure if it matters but I'm running the x86 MATE edition's installer. I'm doing this right now in a VirtualBox to ensure I get everything set up the way I want prior to doing it on the real machine which will be running the x64 MATE edition.
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pindar

Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by pindar »

I had the same problem with the x86_64 cinnamon edition - after writing the fstab, all buttons were greyed out. I simply closed the window and rebooted, and the installation seems to have been successful (I'm writing this from within my new install). I had no /etc/hosts file after logging in, this may have been due to the aborted installation. Other than that, most things run smoothly.
tslater2006

Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by tslater2006 »

Interesting, seemed a bit too risky for me so i went with a default install to a single HDD, after install and boot I manually moved /usr /home and /var to the HDD and updated fstab as required, seems to work well :). They should really fix it though.
pindar

Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by pindar »

Well, I find it absolutely amazing that they have managed to reproduce the look and feel of Mint on a Debian base and am full of admiration for the devs - but there are still a few rough edges, I would say that LMDE is still in beta (I also had to work around the bug that the installer and partitioning tool asked for a password and neither sudo nor root worked).
rca123

Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by rca123 »

I had the same problem. There was no way to continue with the installation on the 32-bit Cinnamon version. I manually specified and mounted partitions. I created /etc/fstab but there was no way to make the installer finish since everything was greyed out. I ended up trying to set up grub myself but could never get it working. I tried grub-install and dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc. Nothing. No /boot/grub/grub.cfg was ever generated no matter what I tried. I wish grub 1 was still around... I could mostly write those config files from memory.
MrHippo

Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by MrHippo »

You can fix the Forward button on the installer by doing the following:

Type into a console:

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gksudo gedit /usr/lib/live-installer/front-end/gtk_interface.py
Scroll down to line 1767 and add the following new line after it:

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                    self.wTree.get_widget("button_next").set_sensitive(True)
Python uses whitespace to denote blocks of code so you need to get that right. I think it is easiest to copy and paste the whole of line 1765 and change ".show()" to ".set_sensitive(True)". That way you get the same spacing before the line.

After you save the file you can run the installer again and the Forward button will be enabled after you close the dialog box. It seems to just do localization stuff after you press Forward so I'm not sure how critical it is for the install anyway
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Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by vajra »

I tried just rebooting & grub failed so now i'll try again editing the gtk_interface.py file

unfortunate error.
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Re: Unable to finish installer [Linux Mint 201303]

Post by vajra »

MrHippo wrote:Type into a console:

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gksudo gedit /usr/lib/live-installer/front-end/gtk_interface.py
The path is incorrect & gedit isn't available so I recommend...

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sudo pluma /usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py
That worked but i still get the Grub error so it must be another issue.

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error: disk xxxx not found
Anyone know about that?
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