BlendOS booting issue

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Hello everyone my current setup is:
Ryzen 5 3600, 32gb ddr4, rtx 3070
Im currently multi-booting Linux Mint, Windows 11 and BlendOS on separate nvme’s. My problem is when I install BlendOS eveything works fine. However once I reboot I get an error message:

[FAILED] error failed to start generate locales using locale-gen.

The system just hangs there and does not boot after that. I have re-installed multiple times and I still get that error. Any help would be appreciated.

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What does the following command report:

grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen

locale-gen takes the locales in /etc/locale.gen to generate files that are compatible with your locale. It sounds like no locale is specified.

Make sure that en_US.UTF-8 is un-commented in /etc/locale.gen. Then re-generate the file with:

locale-gen
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using the grep command it lists en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8. Also it is un-commented in locale.gen. When I run locale.gen it tells me that it’s a read only file system, cannot create temporary file.

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So the result from the above grep command is what would be expected. That part (/etc/locale.gen) seems to be correct.

There are at least two reasons why the file system is read only:

  1. This is the design of the distro as an immutable file system. If that is the case, I offer my apologies for not recognizing the "read only " attribute of BlendOS. The inability to generate the locale-gen file could be related to the core design of the OS. I’m limited here as I don’t have any experience on BlendOS.

  2. A second reason the file system is ready only is based on errors on the disk that are encounter on the boot. Run this command and look at the contents of /etc/fstab:

cat /etc/fstab

If the 4th field in the line defining your disk parameters contains ‘errors=ro,’ it signifies that your fstab file instructs the system to mount the file system as read-only in the event of any errors. Here is the line from my /etc/fstab file that defines my system disk:

UUID=d2e38fc7-1ea4-41d9-9522-8176b0993d2d /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

If #2 is the case, consider looking for errors on the drive with:

# X below is the designation for your drive in question
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdX

Additionally, you could load a live version of the distro on a USB device and then do a check disk on the UNMOUNTED drive:

# X below is the designation for your drive in question
fsck /dev/sdX
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Thank you so much for your time. BlendOS is a immutable system. I went into it thinking that it would ‘just work’ after install. Im going to have to do a little homework on how immutable systems work and then have another go at it. Again thank you very much for your time.

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I suspect there is something to do with the multi-booting or the nvidia support. I am not doing either so I am not running into that kind of thing but at first glance this is what I am leaning to. I have forwarded this thread to the lead dev of blendOS, hopefully we’ll get an answer.

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