bug#19248: installation of 0.8 stops at guile prompt.

[kennedy <tembokm@mweb.co.za>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>> [...]
>>> Could you post your OS config?
>>   (initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest)
>>             (apply base-initrd file-systems
>>                    #:extra-modules '("pata_acpi.ko" "pata_atiixp.ko")
>>                    rest)))
>
> This may be the culprit.  First, it’s not needed, because 0.8 already
> included these two modules by default.  Second, 0.8 would fail when
> trying to load the same module twice, which is exactly what would happen
> here (this is fixed in ‘master’, around commit 0e704a2.)
>
> Could you try to remove these ‘initrd’ lines and try again?

i deleted the lines for "initrd" and the installation completed
successfully on first attempt.

however, the reboot after installation results in a kernel panic.  the
messages just before the panic are the following,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later
usermod: no changes
adding user 'kent'
ERROR: In procedure getpw: entry not found
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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