Lx 4.3 build 230 live iso: Plasma environment not starting

Hello,

I’m testing the latest iso on an asus netbook P1504 U.

Unfortunately, while it boots without any problem before starting the desktop environment, Plasma launch is stuck during splash screen.

I can have acces to a shell, so I could launch the debug script.

omv-bug-report.txt (292.8 KB)

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Better you try with this ISO.

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In journal:

Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression error: 14
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x7368b67f: -5
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data cache entry [7368b67f]
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 7368b67f, size 1dc0
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data cache entry [7368b67f]
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 7368b67f, size 1dc0
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data cache entry [7368b67f]
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 7368b67f, size 1dc0
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression error: 14
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x7368b67f: -5
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression error: 14
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x7368b67f: -5
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression error: 14
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: zstd decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Sep 19 14:05:04 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x7368b67f: -5

That looks like either corrupted media or a corrupted download. I get this sometimes if I download using a browser downloader instead of downloading in terminal. Or sometimes this just happens for reasons I can not explain. To download ISO’s I always check checksum files and I use this:

$ aria2c -c -m 0 http://example.com/file.iso

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Since build 230 is what we have up on SourceForge I just tested it:

  1. Fresh download using aria2c
  2. Check checksums - OK
  3. Used ISO Image Writer to copy .iso file to a flash drive
  4. Boot Legacy and UEFI on Ryzen5 desktop and boot UEFI on ASUS X550C notebook - OK in all instances (noting whether login sound works, it did)
  5. Connect to wifi - OK in all instances
  6. Open Calamares installer and navigate to the page where my partitions are listed - OK in all instances
  7. Check that a few things in Application Menu and OM-Welcome open.

In recent history we have not been seeing any problems with installing in “normal” circumstances. So it is believed to be most likely that installing would not be a problem.

The build 275 ISO @rugyada posted and the most recent Rolling/Lx 4.3RC ISO build 347 have undergone the same testing and were also OK.

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It seems also that Sourceforge is not providing Md5 or SHA1 sums, so I could not check if the iso was OK…

edit: well now I can see the icon which provides additional information, yesterday it was not the case, I can swear…