From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
Cc: "50004@debbugs.gnu.org" <50004@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#50004: got exception while creating partitions
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:51:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0k2k66a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6QWSWLeVCdLiqtNW45gVkmcldzhwozr86pBGhK5GBSHGLm6RaL98zT0A_0EZ6rEM9QhdeL9qytQHVP6_kj8vPafeES503LEoITCq03ig9Ro=@protonmail.com> (John Kehayias's message of "Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:13:40 +0000")
Hello,
John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for filing this, I actually hit I think the same error when
> using the installer a week or 2 ago (built fresh from the main branch,
> not 1.3.0 which I found even flakier). This was on a nvme drive, also
> trying to just do the default ext4 partitions.
>
> In general, it seems the partitioner is brittle: it didn't like some
> partially created partitions from a previous run, once made /boot an
> ext4 partition (rather than fat32), didn't like my messing with manual
> configuration.
>
> In the end, I made sure to start with a clean (no partitions drive)
> and then it worked. I wish I had more detailed info, but for obvious
> reasons can't reproduce it now. I think I have some photos available,
> but looked like the same error I remember seeing.
>
> Oh, and when there is a problem with partitions the installer kicks
> you back to the very beginning, which makes for a more tedious process
> in figuring out how to make it work.
>
> Hope this is helpful!
This user experience is very valuable indeed. Thank you for taking the
time to send it here!
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-30 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-11 5:11 bug#50004: got exception while creating partitions Evgenii Lepikhin
2021-08-17 3:13 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-08-30 20:51 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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