On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:56:21AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> For me the Guix System installer crashes reproducibly after manual
> partitioning, even when not formatting the partition.  The ESP and
> root partition have not been deleted (no matter if I tell the
> installer to format them or not).

Hmm I tried again today but formatting worked now sadly.  I do not
think I did anything differently.  Then I pressed Exit and tried
Partitioning again and then it crashed.

So let me respond to your questions.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:38:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Did you capture the backtrace from /tmp/last-installer-error?  That
> would be great.

I see no file /tmp/last-installer-error.  Note that the error is
during partitioning, not during installation from config.scm.

> > [0060.006214] DEBUG: pty: cannot read from pty of child 364 (5): Input/output error (read_buf() in src/pty.c:478)
> > [0060.006281] DEBUG: pty: HUP on pty of child 364 (pty_input() in src/pty.c:520)
> > [0060.006612] DEBUG: eloop: child 364 exited successfully (sig_child() in src/eloop.c:353)
> > [0060.006627] INFO: pty: child exited: pid: 364 status: 0 (sig_child() in src/pty.c:536)
> > [0060.007224] DEBUG: pty: forking child 414 (pty_spawn() in src/pty.c:422)
> 
> I don’t understand; what is this telling us?

Little.  Maybe something crashed with SIGHUP.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 02:06:35PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Could you share your hard drive layout (size and partitions) and the
> content of `dmesg' and `/var/log/messages' ?

'fdisk -l /dev/sda' prints this:
> Disk /dev/sda: 232.91 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
> Disk model: Hitachi HTS54502
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: gpt
> Disk identifier: 48EE311F-1B63-49E0-8498-42158E4CDB82
> 
> Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
> /dev/sda1         40    409639    409600   200M EFI System
> /dev/sda2     671784 104521991 103850208  49.5G Apple HFS/HFS+
> /dev/sda3  104521992 105791527   1269536 619.9M Apple boot
> /dev/sda4  105793536 210913279 105119744  50.1G Linux filesystem
> /dev/sda6  210913280 488396799 277483520 132.3G Linux filesystem
> /dev/sda7     411648    671743    260096   127M Linux filesystem
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order.

I attach 'dmesg' output.  I also attach /var/log/messages -- the crash
is at its very end (it is the second try of Format disk? because the
first try worked this time).

I will continue trying things.

Regards,
Florian