bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hi,

Using the latest installer image (l6dfrnjhhjf3axjndk290qsgxj0bzpgm-image.iso) I can't install the system because everytime I select a partition scheme, the installer takes me back to the language selection step.

It seems at least two other people have experienced the same issue (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-06/msg00136.html).

I didn't take note of the exact installation steps nor the machine specs, but I can provide that information later if you consider it necessary.

Best,


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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

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bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello Luis,

> Using the latest installer image
> (l6dfrnjhhjf3axjndk290qsgxj0bzpgm-image.iso) I can't install the
> system because everytime I select a partition scheme, the installer
> takes me back to the language selection step.

The latest installer offers a core-dump upload mechanism that should
help diagnosing this issue. Any chance you could try again with
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1689729/details, or later :)?

Thanks,

Mathieu

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hey Mathieu,

On Saturday, November 12th, 2022 at 13:43, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Luis,
> 

> > Using the latest installer image
> > (l6dfrnjhhjf3axjndk290qsgxj0bzpgm-image.iso) I can't install the
> > system because everytime I select a partition scheme, the installer
> > takes me back to the language selection step.
> 

> 

> The latest installer offers a core-dump upload mechanism that should
> help diagnosing this issue. Any chance you could try again with
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1689729/details, or later :)?

I tried again with w0wi4jvanaddk1zcvwzhlnn7fkfwab82-image.iso in the same machine and the issue is gone. I could install the system almost flawlesly. So no oportunity to try out the new mechanism :)

I'll report my installation experience later to help-guix.

I'm closing this issue now.

Thanks a lot,

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bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Problem solved.

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bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hey,

> I tried again with w0wi4jvanaddk1zcvwzhlnn7fkfwab82-image.iso in the
> same machine and the issue is gone. I could install the system almost
> flawlesly. So no oportunity to try out the new mechanism :)

Thanks a lot for testing again and reporting :)

Mathieu

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Simon Streit]

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Hello,

Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> Problem solved.

I just ran into this same problem with an old machine.

Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details. 

Please find attached some logs too: 


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          18 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/0qg0vhx0ryj22k0yxr95jqsbvg196sa7-installer-real")
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    142:2 17 (dynamic-wind #<procedure init ()> #<procedure 7fe53504bb60 at ice-9/eval.scm:330:13 ()> #<procedure exit ()>)
    152:2 16 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
  1747:15 15 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7fe543c05ae0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:1831:7 (exn)> _ #:unwind? _ #:unwind-for-type _)
  1752:10 14 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ #:unwind-for-type _)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    619:8 13 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fe546b0ac80>)) #<variable 7fe534b1dd60 value: #<undefined>>))
   626:19 12 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fe546b0ac80>)) #<variable 7fe534b1dd60 value: #<undefined>>))
In gnu/installer/utils.scm:
   353:14 11 (call-with-server-socket #<procedure 7fe535054600 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:194:2 ()>)
In ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:
   150:13 10 (run () #:todo-steps _ #:done-steps _)
   148:23  9 (run ((locale . "en_GB.utf8")) #:todo-steps _ #:done-steps _)
In ./gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm:
    170:9  8 (run-welcome-page "/gnu/store/36h59r4pb7nw3wk9k0ipar3hgf3cqlnx-logo.txt" #:pci-database _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1685:16  7 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1780:13  6 (_ #<&user-abort-error>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    619:8  5 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fe546b0ac80>) %exception (#<&user-abort-error>)) #<variable 7fe5340d7fc0 value: #<unspecified>> #<variable 7fe5340d7fb0 value: #<undefined>> #<va…> …))
   626:19  4 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fe546b0ac80>) %exception (#<&user-abort-error>)) #<variable 7fe5340d7fc0 value: #<unspecified>> #<variable 7fe5340d7fb0 value: #<undefined>> #<va…> …))
In ./gnu/installer/dump.scm:
     58:4  3 (prepare-dump %exception (#<&user-abort-error>) #:result _)
In ice-9/ports.scm:
   433:17  2 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)
In ./gnu/installer/dump.scm:
    60:27  1 (_ #<output: installer-backtrace 20>)
In unknown file:
           0 (make-stack #t)
./gnu/installer/dump.scm:62:36: ERROR:
  1. &user-abort-error

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((locale . "en_GB.utf8") (territory . "GB") (language . "en") (codeset . "UTF-8"))

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Kind regards
Simon 

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello Simon,

> I just ran into this same problem with an old machine.

Interesting, thanks for the report.

> Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details. 
>
> Please find attached some logs too: 

It looks like you experimented a crash (segfault or so), and the
backtrace is not really helpful here sadly.

What would be interesting is to share the core dump, either by copying
the /tmp/installer-core-dump file after the crash, or by using the dump
upload mechanism and reporting the crash id.

Thanks for your help,

Mathieu

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Simon Streit]

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:

>> Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
>> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details.
>>
>> Please find attached some logs too:
>
> It looks like you experimented a crash (segfault or so), and the
> backtrace is not really helpful here sadly.

Please visit the core dump online at [1] for a while.

I noticed this behaviour happens when placing a hyphon inbetween two
words in the hostname.  The installer doesn't reset when there is no
hyphen.  I will try to complete the installation to confirm that it
usually works without the hyphen.  I'm still at
axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso.

[1] https://steel-is-real.com/core-dump

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Simon Streit]

Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org> writes:

> Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
>>> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details.
>>>
>>> Please find attached some logs too:
>>
>> It looks like you experimented a crash (segfault or so), and the
>> backtrace is not really helpful here sadly.
>
> Please visit the core dump online at [1] for a while.
>
> I noticed this behaviour happens when placing a hyphon inbetween two
> words in the hostname.  The installer doesn't reset when there is no
> hyphen.  I will try to complete the installation to confirm that it
> usually works without the hyphen.  I'm still at
> axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso.

That claim doesn't seem right either.  Only after rebooting the machine
and setting `guix' as hostname doesn't reset the installer.

Will report back. 

bug#55336: Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

[Simon Streit]

Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org> writes:
>> I noticed this behaviour happens when placing a hyphon inbetween two
>> words in the hostname.  The installer doesn't reset when there is no
>> hyphen.  I will try to complete the installation to confirm that it
>> usually works without the hyphen.  I'm still at
>> axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso.
>
> That claim doesn't seem right either.  Only after rebooting the machine
> and setting `guix' as hostname doesn't reset the installer.
>
> Will report back.

The installer went through with setting the hostname to guix.