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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>, 35941@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35941: Newt installer failure when wifi name is #f
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 17:19:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736kywqr2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h89fj6p3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 28 May 2019 10:59:04 +0200")

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> I've tried the installer today and it failed at the wifi selection,
> printing a stack trace which allowed me to investigate.  Since I could
> not save it (shouldn't we dump it to a file by the way?), I've noted
> down the following, roughly:
>
> In /gnu/installer/newt/wifi.scm:
>   204: (run-wifi-page)
>        (filter ...:145 (service)...
>        (#<<service> name: "foo" type: "wifi" path: "wifi_d..." ...)
>   147: (_ #<<service name: #f ...)
>        (string-null? #f)
>
>
> Apparently it fails because a wifi service name is #f.

I believe this is the same bug as
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35620>.

Could you follow-up on the questions I asked there?  That would allow us
to understand exactly why you end up with an empty or #f service name.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-28 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-28  8:59 bug#35941: Newt installer failure when wifi name is #f Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-28  9:15 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-28  9:46   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-28  9:17 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-28 10:00   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-28 10:02   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-28 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-05-28 17:51   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-05-29  7:50     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-29  9:03       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-29  9:46         ` bug#35620: " Mathieu Othacehe

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