From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, 58375@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58375: Installer does not show what is being downloaded
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 18:56:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkql541o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfjy4276.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (Josselin Poiret's message of "Sat, 08 Oct 2022 20:09:33 +0200")
Hello!
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>> I installed Guix on a new drive, so I tried the installer from the latest image. After reviewing the system config, the installer goes to a black screen where guix output is shown. Although I can see messages about substitutes being updated, and how much will be downloaded, all download lines are replaced with a seemingly random number of dots:
>>
>> substitute: mise à jour des substituts depuis «…»... 100.0 %
>> 4.5 Mo seront téléchargés.
>> .
>> ...
>> .
>> .
>> ......
>>
>> Maybe this is related to the translation?
>
> I agree that this does look pretty bad, but this is because we capture
> the guix command output to a log file so that we're able to include it
> in the installer dump if anything goes wrong. Guix detects it's not
> talking directly to a terminal and so doesn't try to use terminal
> specific escape codes to display the download progress. I don't know
> how we could improve on that front though, since in general capturing
> the guix command output helps with debugging issues.
This is a duplicate of <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55360>, marked as
important.
I think capturing all the output as-is is overkill; one option I
suggested in the bug report above is to syslog specific events of
interest during ‘guix system init’.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-09 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-08 10:34 bug#58375: Installer does not show what is being downloaded Julien Lepiller
2022-10-08 18:09 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-10-09 16:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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2022-05-11 9:23 bug#55360: [Installer] ‘guix system init’ displays dots instead of progress bars Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-18 19:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-13 7:04 ` bug#55360: bug#58375: Installer does not show what is being downloaded Mathieu Othacehe
2022-10-13 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-14 15:44 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-10-18 15:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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