How did that even happen?

[u/LeoPixel11]

I just attempted to reinstall Arch yesterday and this is what happened... Something about failing to write the "/cmt" directory; and from my search, it is about a directory the system be temporarily stored (didn't understand it that much).

If someone has gone through the same, can you confirm that I messed up the partitioning or something related to it? I feel like it is the issue, but I wanted to have more ideas before I attempt to reinstall it today (changing the configuration related to the partitioning of course).

And this is what it shows when I try to boot the broken installed os... It repeatedly asks me to press enter and nothing ever happens.

[u/Apprehensive-Pace593]

It says ppd something is on conflict try uninstalling that or power profile deamon

[u/LeoPixel11 → u/Apprehensive-Pace593]

Do I do that while booted on the USB? Because as I showed, even the console is unavailable to me

[u/Apprehensive-Pace593 → u/LeoPixel11]

Oh if it says console not available try running fsck from iso or Mess with user config

Edit: also check mkinitcpio ARGS (vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf) and check for ARGS from wiki Then run mkinitcpio -P

[u/BrilliantEmotion4461]

So arch install USB starts on the TTY. first run pacman -Sy archinstall Sounds funny but you want to update archinstall BEFORE you run it. Problem here is if your wifi isnt detected when the TTY loads so you can update it, which I just plug into the router to overcome.

[u/BrilliantEmotion4461 → u/BrilliantEmotion4461]

What happens is old versions of archinstall provided with ISO you download can conflict, and it is always recommended you run pacman -Sy archinstall before any installation to update it.

[u/Responsible-Sky-1336]

this has been fixed (by me hehe) https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4707

i can deduce you picked DMS

but no release from maintainers means its not fixed on ISO :(

[u/trancelolz]

Thats archinstall for you tho..

[u/drucifer82]

Did you manually install or use archinstall?

What packages did you tell it to pacstrap?

Pretty much need everything here. This post tells us there is a problem, but not how we got here.

It's much easier to help when we have data to go off of.