Installation of Guix hangs

Installation of Guix hangs

[Tomasz Chrzczonowicz]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to install Guix 1.0.1.i686 on my old 1,6GHz, 1 GB RAM netbook.

The installation hags during the "copying to /mnt" part.  Is there a way for me to troubleshoot the installation?

Is my hardware too old for the installation to work?

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

[宋文武]

Tomasz Chrzczonowicz <tchrzcz@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to install Guix 1.0.1.i686 on my old 1,6GHz, 1 GB RAM netbook.
>
> The installation hags during the "copying to /mnt" part.  Is there a
> way for me to troubleshoot the installation?

Hell, did you use the graphical installer?  Maybe you can switch the
console by "Ctrl-Alt-F2" etc?

>
> Is my hardware too old for the installation to work?

I think it's fine, but 1G RAM may not be enough, you can try setup a
swap first.

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

[Tomasz Chrzczonowicz]

> Hell, did you use the graphical installer? Maybe you can switch the
> console by "Ctrl-Alt-F2" etc?

Yes, I used the graphical installer. I tried pressing "Ctrl-Alt-F2" etc, but nothing happens.

> I think it's fine, but 1G RAM may not be enough, you can try setup a
> swap first.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that.

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

[Jovany Leandro G.C]

On 2019-07-20 11:46, Tomasz Chrzczonowicz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to install Guix 1.0.1.i686 on my old 1,6GHz, 1 GB RAM netbook.
> 
> The installation hags during the "copying to /mnt" part.  Is there a
> way for me to troubleshoot the installation?
> 
> Is my hardware too old for the installation to work?
hi,
how much you wait?, maybe take a lot time.

i think you must do a shell installation, but before install enable swap
2GB partition manually.
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Re: Installation of Guix hangs

[Tomasz Chrzczonowicz]

> hi,
> how much you wait?, maybe take a lot time.
>

The copying progressed fairly quickly until it stopped and didn't budge for, like several hours.

> i think you must do a shell installation, but before install enable swap
> 2GB partition manually.

That's what I'm trying to do right now, but I'm getting errors with my config.scm file. I pasted it at https://bin.privacytools.io/?d83007f4078192ad#XiaRi8vM3PKN0cYV2kSclA1h5ZEe, the password is "myconfigfile".

Ii seems I can't get the parentheses right.

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

[Tomasz Chrzczonowicz]

Ooops, I pasted the link wrong. It should be: https://bin.privacytools.io/?d83007f4078192ad#XiaRi8vM3PKN0cYV2kSclA1h5ZEe/FjZMkDp2ztZSk8=

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

[Tomasz Chrzczonowicz]

I tried installing Guix again, this time I set up swap, an ssh server and went with graphical install, so the config.scm wasn't an issue. I ran "top" over ssh during the whole process and what it tells me is that when the system hung the RAM usage was around 50% and SWAP almost wasn't used.

When I try to install a bare system without X, the installation invariably hangs while copying files to /mnt.

When I try to install a system with Enlightenment, the installation invariably hangs while building "sqlite-with-column-metadata".