From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Call for testing!
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:01:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87611d7kpj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1511051016400.2383@sandbox.cz> (Adam Pribyl's message of "Thu, 5 Nov 2015 12:06:16 +0100 (CET)")
Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> 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’s a harmless annoyance, but we should fix dmd to redirect the
daemon’s 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’s no network issue, that shouldn’t happen.
> 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 ‘ps2’ protocol, which
apparently works for USB HID mice. I hope that’ll 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 ‘mkfs.ext4 -L the-label’.
I’ll make that command more clearly visible in “System Installation.”
> 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’s insightful, as usual!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-07 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-03 14:17 Call for testing! Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-04 3:49 ` 宋文武
2015-11-04 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-05 11:06 ` Adam Pribyl
2015-11-07 18:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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2015-01-27 9:56 Ludovic Courtès
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