Installation Failed: File Exists error

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

Hello,
I am having issues installing Open Mandriva Rome.
Calamares gives me an error saying that a file exists. This is something that I know has cropped up before. I think it might be because I am installing to /dev/sdc1 and I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda1 and it might be trying to do something with grub on that drive and can’t.

Using F8 I have the option to select the Mandriva drive and boot into Grub for Open Mandriva but if I do all I get is the Grub command line and that is way beyond my abilities to sort out.

I am keen to try Mandriva Rome properly as I have been looking for a rolling release distro that is new user friendly ( Rhino and Peppermint did not cut it for me )

• OpenMandriva Lx version:
  23.08 ROME

• Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
  KDE

• Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
  Calamares on finishing installation says “File Exists” - I am unable to copy the info in the window but I gather from a web search ( which provided no solution for me ) that it doesn’t give much information away anyway.

• Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
  i7-7700, rx6700xt, 32gb ram.

[rugyada]

Welcome @Peppermint

@Peppermint

Calamares on finishing installation says “File Exists” - I am unable to copy the info in the window

You should be able to take a screenshot and post it here ?

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

I have run the installer again and I am getting the same error.
Installation failed:

Boost.Python error in job “bootloader”.
Details:

<div><strong>&lt;class 'FileExistsError'&gt;</strong></div><div>[Errno 17] File exists: '/tmp/calamares-root-3rry5u1n/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi'</div><div><br/>Traceback:</div><div><pre>File &quot;/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py&quot;, line 777, in run
    prepare_bootloader(fw_type)

  File &quot;/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py&quot;, line 748, in prepare_bootloader
    install_grub(efi_directory, fw_type)

  File &quot;/usr/lib64/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py&quot;, line 657, in install_grub
    shutil.copy2(efi_file_source, efi_file_target)

  File &quot;/usr/lib64/python3.11/shutil.py&quot;, line 436, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)

  File &quot;/usr/lib64/python3.11/shutil.py&quot;, line 258, in copyfile
    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</pre></div>

That is the information in the box. I am currently in the live disk environment.

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

[rugyada]

Thanks.
While waiting for anyone who is better knowledged, please tell also:
if you verified your iso file (checksums)
how you transferred the image to the pendrive, assuming that you used a pendrive, otherwise if you used a DVD.

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

I did not verify the file. I don’t know how to verify an iso.

I have tried images from both the sourceforge link and via torrent.

I had trouble writing the ISO to USB.
I had to unmount the the filesystem on the USB stick ( it had a blank ext4 partition on it ) before the KDE Image Writer would write the ISO.

I did use KDI Image writer as recommended ( UnetBootin would not even recognise the .iso as valid )

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

Just having a look at the first line of the error: FileExists is a check to see if a file exists.
it’s looking for the following file:

/tmp/calamares-root-3rry5u1n/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi

When I go into Dolphin and to /tmp/calamares-root-3rry5u1n/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/

the filename boot64.efi requested by the script is actualy capitalised to BOOTX64.EFI in the folder. So is that why it’s failing to find the file?

I shall try renaming the file to lower case and run the installer again.

[rugyada]

@Peppermint

I don’t know how to verify an iso.

At https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/release/ROME/23.08/
click the “i” (info) little icon near the file you downloaded

take note of the 2 checksums SHA1 and MD5

In the directory where is the iso file you downloaded open konsole and type

md5sum openmandriva.rome-23.08-plasma.x86_64.iso
and
sha1sum openmandriva.rome-23.08-plasma.x86_64.iso

compare the konsole outputs with those you noted earlier, they must match.

(see also https://www.openmandriva.org/downloads)

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

Downloading the ISO image again. md5sum did not match.
Will try again if I can get an image that verifies.

[Peppermint (Ruth)]

The image verified this time and the installer looks different and just got to “All done”. So in theory I have a working installation now. I must have had a bad image originally.

Thanks for the support.

[rugyada]

@Peppermint

So in theory I have a working installation now.

Glad that you sorted.