Sabayon Crashes during install [Solved]

[franknbeans]

Every time I try to install Sabayon X86_64 for Gnome using the graphical install it crashes with the follow error.

Componet: Sabayon Linux Installer
Version: 0.99.38.7
Summary: TB489c5ab5 pickle.py:971:load_string:LookupError: unknown encoding: string-escape

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1059, in handleRenderCallback
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 162, in renderCallback
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 906, in nextClicked
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 172, in gotoNext
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 240, in moveStep
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/sabayon/installer.py", line 87, in doInstall
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/sabayon/slUtils.py", line 362, in removeLiveUser
File "/user/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 621, in _int_
File "/user/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1122, in _execute_child
File "/user/lib64/python2.6/pickle.py", line 1374, in loads
File "/user/lib64/python2.6/pickle.py", line 858, in load
File "/user/lib64/python2.6/pickle.py", line 971, in load_string
LookupError: unknown encoding:string-escape

Local variables in innermost frame:
q: '
rep No such file or directory
self: <pickle.Unpickler instance at 0x1012c20>

Not sure what is going on. I guess I'll try the text installer. The live cd works fine. Below are the system specs.

Dell Studio XPS 13
Intel P8800 Core 2 Duo
8 GB of DDR ram
256 GB samsung SSD
Nvidia 210m 512mb of ram.

Let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks

[franknbeans]

Update also fails during text install but doesn't give a message. On reboot it gets to the grub prompt and that is it.

[Sisko43]

This is a well-known bug with some harddrives. Try to avoid LVM and/or the ext4-filesystem. Then Sabayon should install fine....

[franknbeans]

I made it past it finally.

Here is what I did.

1. Booted into the live cd.
2. Opened up a terminal
3. Aligned the ssd using fdisk -S 32 -H 32 /dev/sda
4. set up 3 partitions using fdisk one boot, one swap and root
5. Using fdisk set the first partition to boot and the second to swap.
6. Formatted the partitions using mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -E stride=128 -E stripe-width=128 -O ^has_journal /dev/sda1 on the boot partition and mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -E stride=128 -E stripe-width=128 /dev/sda3 on the root partition.
7. Ran install on Disk from the desktop in live cd.
8. Selected the boot partition to go to \boot and root partition to go to \
9. Selected the system to format the swap partition.

Though I think you are write on ext4. Because inside the installer it automatically switch my boot partition from ext4 to ext2