From: David Wilson <david@daviwil.com>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 44872@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 06:53:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r97195g.fsf@daviwil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmwred5f.fsf@gnu.org>
Hey Mathieu, thanks for looking into this!
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:
> I fixed this issue with f5d9d6ec68f78f5651bd5a698f489ab57bf77d5d. The
> rationale is that any partition that will be mounted and not formatted
> ("Format the partition? No) must have a valid UUID. The installer
> now prevents going further if this is not the case.
>
> That said, I think you are experiencing a different issue. The REPL
> commands you ran show that your nvme0n1p1 and nvme0n1p6 partitions have
> valid UUIDs.
Your change seems to have exposed the real (and totally unexpected)
problem! For some reason, the installer is trying to get the UUID of
a partition on my USB stick that contains the installer.
It seems that for some reason the installer has automatically picked a
mount point of `/boot/efi' for `/dev/sda2' in addition to the mount
points on my actual hard drive. I now see an error dialog saying that
it can't retrieve the UUID of /dev/sda2 when I try to proceed past the
partitioning page. If I clear the mount point for /dev/sda2, I am now
able to proceed to the page to with the generated system configuration!
At this point I think I should be able to proceed with making the
installation video I was working on, I'll just let viewers know that
they may need to clear that mount point if the same thing happens for
them.
> I'm not sure if you are aware of this feature, but generating
> uncompressed ISO9660 image is a serious time saver when debugging the
> installer:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix system image -t uncompressed-iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I wasn't aware, thanks for letting me know! Creating the image was a
lot faster this time :)
David
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[not found] <300530410.943064.1606325189191.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-11-25 17:26 ` bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive Tim Magee
2020-11-26 8:58 ` Mathieu Othacehe
[not found] ` <304538163.1205868.1606443556649@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-11-27 3:12 ` bug#44872: Fw: " Tim Magee
2020-11-28 5:27 ` Tim Magee
2020-12-01 9:46 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-29 19:02 ` andi
2020-12-22 2:13 ` Tim Magee via web
2021-04-22 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-22 22:40 ` bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-05 23:08 ` David Wilson
2021-06-07 6:20 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-08 16:33 ` David Wilson
2021-06-09 15:57 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-09 16:44 ` David Wilson
2021-06-12 7:49 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-12 13:53 ` David Wilson [this message]
2021-06-12 16:53 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-12 22:26 ` David Wilson
2021-06-17 10:24 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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