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From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:19:07 +0200
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for getting back to me!

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Alex,
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
>> Then the screen flashes back to the beginning of the installer.  Running
>> through the process again results in the disk drive not being available
>> for partitioning.
>
> Are you running the installer on a VM or on real hardware?

Real hardware.

> Could you try the following steps:
>
> * Run the installation until it fails and restart.
> * Press Ctrl-Alt-2.
> * Type "sendkey ctrl-alt-f3".
> * Then press Ctrl-Alt-1 and Enter.
> * Check if there is a /tmp/last-installer-error file and, if yes, report
> its content.

This I could not do: Ctrl-Alt-2 doesn't do anything, but I imagine you
meant Ctrl-Alt-f2?  That takes me to the manual.

However, once the installer reloads, I can hit Ctrl-Alt-f3 and Enter to
get to a prompt.

There is no /tmp/last-installer-error file :-(

I did check /var/log/debug.  There I can trace the configuration
process.

After "running form #<newt-form b7d4c0> ("Configuration file") with 0
clients" I get:
=E2=80=A6Service cow-store has been started.
=E2=80=A6Service cow-store has been stopped.
=E2=80=A6Service guix-daemon has been stopped.
=E2=80=A6Service guix-daemon has been started.
=E2=80=A6Umounted /remove successfully.
=E2=80=A6unmounting "/mnt"
=E2=80=A6closing LUKS entry "cryptroot"
=E2=80=A6running step 'locale'

The last presumably is the installer restarting.

Hth,

Alex

>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu