installer hangs after user creation screen | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:10 PM

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i've let it sit and spin for more than an hour but it never progresses further. i have disabled secure boot.

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:14 PM

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i think i know the issue

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what setup did you option for? full-erase & install?

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:16 PM

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yes

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:17 PM

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hm

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are there many hard drives in system?

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that is a known cause

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:17 PM

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only one, and it's an nvme

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:17 PM

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did u reboot or still stuck in installer?

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:18 PM

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i rebooted to disable secure boot and tried again and it's still the same.

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:18 PM

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ok let's try something a bit different

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:18 PM

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the system is otherwise responsive, i can browse

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:18 PM

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close the installation program itself,

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or kill it from terminal if u cant

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:22 PM

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force quit is failing. what's the process going to be called? the title bar says "install" but i don't see that in the list.

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:22 PM

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easy way is run xkill in terminal, then click the installer

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with the deathmouse

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once it's gone , open Disks app from the app menu

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:23 PM

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ok, i'm there

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:23 PM

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I'd like to see what is there

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:25 PM

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I hate that I had to take a picture of the screen, lol.

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:28 PM

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it's only live mode so

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close that app. open gparted up

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make sure its selector is on the nvme0n1 drive

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the go to Device menu, > new partition table > GPT

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wait hold on @tacit frigate

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:30 PM

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Holding

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:30 PM

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click partition 2 in the Disks app

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then the play button

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what's it say exactly for used and free and total

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:31 PM

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502gb free(1.8% full) partition type Linux file system

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:32 PM

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in the partition diagram

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what does it say in the nvme0n1p2 block for size?

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:32 PM

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Partition 2 512gb ext4

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:33 PM

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ok let's calculate.

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0.018 x 512

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:33 PM

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9.216?

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:34 PM

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yep. close to 10 gigs

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not quite complete install

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cuz it's like 10 gigs with a 2 gig swap file plus 8 gig OS

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pretty sure

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anyway, try again. make new partition table as above

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ensure USB does not get bumped or nudged

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:35 PM

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Right, so the install never finished and ininterrupted it after an hour to disable secure boot, then after another hour and came here. I know it should only take 10 min or so from doing other installs

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I’m getting the rainbow spinner over everything so I’m just gonna reboot to try again after deleting the partitions in disks

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:37 PM

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in gparted in the DEVICE MENU

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and leave it unallocated entirely

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@tacit frigate

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:39 PM

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Ok

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Gparted only sees a single 476.94 GiB unallocated partitiob

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Lthsts just die to GB/GiB notation though, I suppose

gloomy roost May 3, 2026, 10:42 PM

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yep

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once fully unallocated with abrand new GPT, then close gparted, and run up installer

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and choose the erase/install automated thing

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dont encrypt or do any kind of advanced buggery

tacit frigate May 3, 2026, 10:46 PM

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Alright, got to a new progress bar

gloomy roost May 4, 2026, 2:23 AM

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tacit frigate Alright, got to a new progress bar

did it finish, and boots now?

tacit frigate May 4, 2026, 5:22 AM

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gloomy roost did it finish, and boots now?

Yes thank you for your help. I have a functional pc now!

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