From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: 58783@debbugs.gnu.org, GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org
Subject: bug#58783: Strange booting/reproducibility issue
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:17:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B22DF867-912E-461D-BF90-B3B343B96665@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221026004303.3a0e4815@primary_laptop>
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continue. GNU Guile 3.0.7
Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
That sounds weird, I would expect our guile to be more recent than that. The manual suggests using "sudo guix system" instead of "sudo -E guix system", maybe that's the issue?
Le 26 octobre 2022 00:43:03 GMT+02:00, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>On an i686 computer[1], I've a Guix installation on an HDD, and if I do
>> guix pull -M 1 -c 1
>and that I then do
>> sudo -E guix system reconfigure -M 1 -c 1 system.scm
>
>I get the following boot failure[2]:
>> GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for
>> main thread GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
>> Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.
>> Use 'gnu.repl' for an initrd REPL.
>>
>> loading kernel modules...
>> Enter passphrase for /dev/sda2:
>> /dev/mapper/cryptroot: recovering journal
>> /dev/mapper/cryptroot: clean, 702176/9773056 files, 8418369/39071232
>> blocks ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>> In procedure mkdir: File exists
>>
>> Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to
>> continue. GNU Guile 3.0.7
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
>> This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>> under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
>>
>> Enter `,help' for help.
>> scheme@(guile-user)>
>
>If I use the same system.scm (attached) and that I produce an image
>with the build_init.sh script (attached) which setups an encrypted
>partition and uses guix system init, and that I then copy the resulting
>image to an USB drive with ddrescue, It then boots fine.
>
>Since the system ends up not booting anymore when I try to guix pull
>and guix system reconfigure the system on the HDD, to boot I simply
>select a known booting old revision in the grub menu, so I can easily
>test things.
>
>Though I'm not sure where to look. Is there anything I can do to get
>more contexts or logs? Should I try loglevel=8 ?
>
>References:
>-----------
>[1] The computer is a Thinkpad X60 with only an external display running
> Coreboot with SeaBIOS.
>[2] The boot log was captured by adding console=ttyS0,115200 to the
> command line arguments in grub and by capturing the messages
> through a serial port.
>
>Denis.
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2022-10-25 22:43 bug#58783: Strange booting/reproducibility issue Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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