From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tim Magee <timothy@eastlincoln.net>
Cc: 44872@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:40:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf9at022.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2daz87n.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:48:12 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> Apparently what happens here is that ‘read-partition-uuid’, called by
> ‘user-partition->file-system’, returns #f, and that value is then passed
> to ‘uuid->string’.
>
> There are two ways ‘read-partition-uuid’ can return #f:
>
> 1. the partition doesn’t have one of the types listed in
> ‘%partition-uuid-readers’;
>
> 2. the partition does not exist or is EIO (see use of ‘ENOENT-safe’ in
> ‘partition-field-reader’).
>
> So most likely the problem is #2.
I pushed a change so that ‘read-partition-uuid’ & co. will no longer
swallow ENOENT, so we at least get more accurate error reports:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=09ce4568f2cc1f87c5a5e0aa1643780c39a73088
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-22 22:42 UTC|newest]
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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 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-06-05 23:08 ` bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID 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
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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