10 Nov
2014
10 Nov
'14
4:14 p.m.
As of ISO 2014.11.01 attempts to install packages within the live system itself can cause complete system failure, apparently due to problems affecting device mapper. The problem is a regression that can't be seen with ISO 2014.10.01. It doesn't always appear and I couldn't find out the exact conditions. But it seems the number / volume of packages that are about to be installed has to exceed some kind of threshold. Also, it doesn't affect running pacstrap the usual way. Attaching journalctl output from a KVM/QEMU instance (behaviour is the same booting "bare metal", though). Regards.