On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:38:00 +0200 Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 07:31:13 +0100 > Christopher Baines wrote: > > > Currently, I get the following error when running this test. > > > > registering closures... > > error: initialising database schema: disk I/O error > > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > > ERROR: failed to register store items "/xchg/system" > > > > > > I also need the patch from > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28273 otherwise I > > can't even run the test. > > > > Danny, I guess you have been looking at installing from an ISO > > image as well, as I spotted you added it to the release target. > > Have you been able to successfully use it yet? > > Does that mean with the wip-installer-2 branch? I've just been testing with the master branch, and with the changes I sent to this bug. Are there any changes on the wip-installer-2 that are not solely related to the installer (which if I understand correctly is something more complicated than running guix system init). > Otherwise in master I always tested it using gnu/system/install.scm > until it has booted up successfully, which it did. > > I've asked about the installation part before but there was no > response. Ok, that's good to know. I would guess it's pretty close now, great work on moving the ISO stuff forward! > > When attempting to use it initially, I encountered a problem where a > > glibc in the store was partially deleted. /var/guix/db/db.sqlite > > also initially didn't exist, which the WIP patch here attempts to > > address. > > Hmm, do you have logs of the release creation process? Maybe xorriso > complained? From talking to Ludo at the GHM, I think there is some extra steps needed to make installing from the ISO possible, but I don't yet understand this. I'll CC Ludo, as he might be able to explain better.