Installer: General system error when writing nightly image

[humdinger]

This is hrev55102+1, 64bit

I downloaded haiku-master-hrev55125-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.zip, unpacked it and mounted it after a diskimage register /TheAttic/haiku-master-hrev55125-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.iso. Using Installer to put it on an empty partition results in a General system error fairly at the end (at 262 of 356 files). Started from Terminal it says:

/TheAttic> Installer 
ignoring '_packages_'.
523196848 bytes to write in 356 files
ignoring '_packages_'.
Writing boot code to "/dev/disk/scsi/0/5/0/1_5" (partition offset: 86402826240 bytes, start offset = 0) ...
/bin/sh: line 1: /Testiku/system/packages/administrative/FirstBootProcessingNeeded: No such file or directory
498.96 MB written (163.04 MB/s)

I assume it's not an Installer problem but something with the packaging of the nightly? Leaving ticket in "General" category...

[diver]

Could be related to hrev55091?

[vidrep]

Don’t you have to convert the anyboot image to a raw image first, before mounting and installing to another partition?

[humdinger]

Nope, once you've a mounted image/partition with a Haiku installation on it, you can use it as source in Installer.

[pulkomandy]

55091 didn't touch this file. It is created by Installer to let the newly installed system that it will be doing a "first boot" (and so needs to generate its own ssh host key, and generally run first boot scripts)

It looks like the /Testiku/system/packages/administrative/ directory does not exist, and so the command here fails: ​https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/apps/installer/WorkerThread.cpp#n318

Maybe Installer should create that directory? Or maybe we should make sure it exists in the source image and is correctly copied over?

[nephele]

I have the same problem with beta3 test candidate 1, downloaded it diskimage registered it and then tried to install to a freshly formated USB thumb drive

[jessicah]

Proposed fix: ​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4242

[nephele]

The fix makes the Installer succeed without an error for me.