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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35543: Installer crashes on retry when selecting keyboard layout
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 15:41:11 +0200
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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Hello!

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

>> I believe the broader issue is that the installer cannot really be
>> restarted after a failed install, as we discussed a while back on
>> guix-devel.  Mathieu, can you confirm?
>
> I'm not aware of this layout issue, however, after the installer is
> restarted, the install is doomed because some mounts can't be
> undone.
>
> I didn't find a way to fix this, so maybe we should advise/force a
> reboot upon installer failure?

Maybe, though we should also offer a way to collect more debugging info
and report the issue, which means at least letting people read error
messages.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.