Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.

[Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org>]

Hi,

I also encountered an issue with the latest iso just one day before the 
call for testing.

I have already filed the bug here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43879

Marinus Savoritias

On 10/11/20 10:32 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:23:30PM +1100, Brendan Tildesley wrote:
>> Hi, I went through the installer looking for anything negative I could say
>> about it :) hope there is something helpful here:
> Thank you for testing!
>
>
>> Unrelated driver bug: installer was just a black screen until I rebooted
>> with nomodeset:  https://paste.debian.net/1166581/
>> Even with nomodeset, I get an error about no UMS supported in radeon, but it
>> doesn't stop anything.
> This black screen regression should be “fixed” now (commit
> 34d436a4082b5c5f23b00e13eb8e5a92d957d704) by passing a kernel argument
> “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” which disables the radeon driver.
>
> (This was also blacklisted in the last release 1.1.0 of Guix, see
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40599>.  I had removed
> “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” because it was for some time no longer
> needed on one of my machines.)
>
> Some users will have a black screen in the installed system as well
> (if they use Linux-libre).  I don’t think we can do much about that.
> Niels <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40599#8> only had trouble with the
> installer but did not on the installed system.  It seems not feasible
> to predict which users would have a black screen in the installed
> system, so we cannot add instructions only for them.
>
>
>
>> Languages listed in the language selection are sometimes in English, Rarely
>> in the native language. […]
>> Random thought: could we adapt the installer to use the same sentences from
>> an existing installer, like the ubuntu one, so that all the translations can
>> be copied in for free? All the basic quesions like please choose a password
>> are surely shared between these installers.
> Yes, we could copy translations without understanding the language (at
> least after our planned switch from the Translation Project to our own
> hosted Weblate translation infrastructure).
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>