Laptop 4.2 Installation - Failed to Start system-udev-settle.service

[Wrt]

Hello,
I am trying to Install Qubes 4.2 on my laptop:
i7-12700H
16GB DDR5
RTX 3050

I got Intel VT-d & Intel VT-x Enabled.
I tried installing via regular, live boot, and kernel mode
all show the same error message:
“Failed to Start system-udev-settle.service - Wait for udev to Complete Device Initialization”

After about 30 minutes or an hour there is a screen that looks like the “tree” command in windows CMD, and then a message “Boot failed” or something similar.

What is the problem? Thanks.

[ChrisA]

Hi Wrt – and welcome to the forum!

“RTX 3050” … that’s a Nvidia GPU … right?

I had a quick look at the HCL1 and spotted a laptop with that GPU and a description of some GPU settings:

Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 5

Remarks Known Issues Wifi does not work (Fixed in next Kernel) Screen tearing during LUKS decrypt when using Hybrid GPU Mode. Switch to Discrete GPU Mode, notes below. Have not tested camera or microphone. But microphone is picked up. I believe the wifi issue is known to the Qubes team and will be fixed soon. Installation This section might be irrelevant in the future when Nouveau fully supports the RTX 3050ti mobile Due to the Nvidia GPU not being fully supported by Nouveau, default inst…

… maybe they apply to your model/make as well?

[Wrt]

Looks like the problem in the topic is old (2022) and might be already fixed on 4.2:
“This section might be irrelevant in the future when Nouveau fully supports the RTX 3050ti mobile”
And they have rendering issues: “default installation results in a black screen”
not similar to the problem I have

[ChrisA]

Yes - nouveau might have support for the 3050 now … and it might not … :-/

I don’t have your hardware and I don’t recall “Failed to Start system-dev-settle.service”, so I’m trying to eliminate possibilities … Can you try to remove quiet from the kernel line and see if more information should be available?

[Wrt]

Okay… just did and it started showing “nvme0 timeout completion polled” around the [FAILED] Failed to Start system-udev-settle.service error, I goggled it and disabled hyperthreading in bios. Same issue still.
Note, I can’t take out the NVMe, dont want to void laptop warranty. and I am planning to install Qubes on an external SSD.

[ChrisA]

This post suggest some RAID / VMD issues:

Qubes installation on new $2,000 high end PC takes 60+ minutes to load?

TLDR; disable VMD in bios I had the same problem. New-ish Lenovo intel machine making a very SLOW and tedious install that appears to hang during install. Verbose install showed many nvme nvme0: I/O timeouts, but if you let it sit for several hours it would eventually get to the installation gui. After that point, I had additional extreme slowness with selecting the partition. It dawned on me that there could be an issue with the harddrive controller. After some digging into all the intel spe…

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[Wrt]

Okay… it fixed the udev prob, but now I have this:

[ChrisA]

How did you write/make the installation media?

[Wrt]

Rufus using ISO image mode

[ChrisA]

Sounds/looks similar to this old case?

USB of 4.2RC3 does not start on Librem 13 V2

I had hoped my problems with the latest Qubes would be solved, or apparent by a later install. Qubes 4.3 RC4 likewise is not much seen by Librem 13V2. I did get one of my installs, from Rufus to give me a repeating something, in the short version: It seems the boot has failed possible causes include missing inst.boot2 or inst.repo please note that the ‘inst.’ prefix is now mandatory installer errors encountered during boot /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/timeout/50-anaconda-error-reporting.sh…

– and that is linked from:

[qubes-users] Issue with "Qubes release 4.2.0-rc3" | USB Installation Media not detected in UEFI BIOS

Thank you Tobias and other folks and really sorry for delayed reply on this. This is what I did:- Updated motherboard BIOS version to latest one. Verified ISO file should be same as downloaded one, it was corrupted so corrected later. By doing so, I was able to see Qubes 4.2.0 RC4 installation UI, but was not able to resolve issue of Installation source, so I decided to use Rufus made USB installation media, for this, when I tried to make USB installation media for “Qubes-R4.2.0-rc4-x86_64.i…

Maybe writing the ISO with a different tool, can resolve the problem?

Note: I’m guessing, but hope it can point you in the direction of a solution.

[Wrt]

Going well now. Thanks.