From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Call for testing! Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:01:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87611d7kpj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87io5jxj3y.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7ni-0003CZ-TQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:01:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv7nf-000731-LA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:01:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Adam Pribyl's message of "Thu, 5 Nov 2015 12:06:16 +0100 (CET)") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Adam Pribyl Cc: guix-devel Adam Pribyl skribis: > 1) doc: I would suggest to put in the doc (on tty2) to put the > commands that should be used during installation on the separate lines > > e.g.: > " > o install the system, you would: > > Configure the network, by running ifconfig eno1 up && dhclient eno1 > " > should be > " > o install the system, you would: > > Configure the network, by running > > ifconfig eno1 up && dhclient eno1 > " > > This really helps when one is quickly scanning the installation > procedure to find the desired commands. Indeed. Done in 235cba8. > 2) I do sometimes see a guix deamon to spit a > "spurious SIGPOLL" > message. I do not know what it means. It=E2=80=99s a harmless annoyance, but we should fix dmd to redirect the daemon=E2=80=99s standard output. > 3) I do see the process of installtion beeing from time to time > aborted due to "can not resolve hydra.gnu.org" (sorry the message is > not exact). What networking driver were you using? Normally, if dhclient works correctly and there=E2=80=99s no network issue, that shouldn=E2=80=99t happ= en. > 4) would be nice if installation image includes mouse (gpm) support - > I did not found and easy way to copy the content from installation > guide. Good idea, done in ae7ffa9. I set it to use the =E2=80=98ps2=E2=80=99 prot= ocol, which apparently works for USB HID mice. I hope that=E2=80=99ll be fine. > 5) after default installation and reboot, grub loads the kernel, but > the boot ends with > "waiting for "root" device to appear" > erroring out as it can not be found. > This was caused by the label "root" missing on /dev/sda1 partition, > even thou it is specified in config.scm. Yeah, the root partition must be created with =E2=80=98mkfs.ext4 -L the-lab= el=E2=80=99. I=E2=80=99ll make that command more clearly visible in =E2=80=9CSystem Inst= allation.=E2=80=9D > 6) At first I had troubles with name resolution in the installed > system. All address translation requests do end with "host not > found". I have to explicitely ask with bind-utils host command, then > the name is cached and I can use it. After some more package > installation, that brought in the glibc or something and reboot it > started to work OK?! (Related to 3?) This is weird. Does the system use dhclient or wicd? Is it WiFi or wired? Thanks a lot for your feedback. It=E2=80=99s insightful, as usual! Ludo=E2=80=99.