From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 34902@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34902: guix cannot find a module on boot
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:34:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190318223404.1b3c06b9@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o967lxsa.fsf@gnu.org>
Le Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:42:29 +0100,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
> Hi Julien,
>
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
>
> > I've installed the Guix system on my cubietruck yesterday, but had
> > some difficulties. At first, the root partition was not available at
> > boot, so I got a repl with a message saying that /dev/mmcblk0p1 was
> > not available. I added the following to my guix config file:
> >
> > (initrd-modules (cons "sunxi_mmc" %base-initrd-modules))
>
> Didn’t ‘guix system init’ suggest adding this module? Could it be
> that this module was actually built-in in the kernel you booted?
I couldn't find it in the output of lsmod, so I think it was builtin.
>
> > although the guix system command worked, the produced system still
> > couldn't boot, but this time the message was that guix was unable to
> > find sunxi_mmc.ko. Using the repl I could confirm that this module
> > was indeed here, but under the name sunxi-mmc.ko. Using
> > load-linux-module*, I was able to confirm that loading it made the
> > filesystem available in /dev. In the end this line:
> >
> > (initrd-modules (cons "sunxi-mmc" %base-initrd-modules))
> >
> > was the right line to add, and I could properly boot my
> > cubietruck!
>
> Phewww.
>
> > The bug here is that guix should either be smarter and load
> > sunxi-mmc.ko when it can't find sunxi_mmc.ko, or not allow me to
> > build a system when I specify sunxi_mmc since it doesn't exist at
> > boot time.
>
> This underscore vs. hyphen thing is terrible.
>
> In commit fcd068e984078ab74c6842af2525bf88096cd262 we fixed the initrd
> builder so it would try both file underscore and hyphen.
>
> But now I suppose we need to do the same in ‘load-linux-module*’?
I guess so :)
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-18 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-18 9:17 bug#34902: guix cannot find a module on boot Julien Lepiller
2019-03-18 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-18 21:34 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2019-03-18 22:40 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-03-22 20:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-04 20:42 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-08-16 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-08-01 9:49 ` bug#34902: Guix " Julien Lepiller
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