From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Sassmannshausen Subject: Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test! Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:07:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87imi735oc.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87369c1ixm.fsf@gnu.org> <87k12n37o4.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jMsRb-0001mP-SP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 08:07:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jMsRa-0002ud-L9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 08:07:35 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x433.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::433]:43593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jMsRa-0002uR-F2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 08:07:34 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-x433.google.com with SMTP id i10so2061045wrv.10 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watership ([2a02:a03f:664e:4100:53c2:84c6:c063:7e25]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h4sm2560537wrv.91.2020.04.10.05.07.31 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:07:31 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87k12n37o4.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org I have been able to avoid this error by selecting: - English - United Kingdom As the system language & locale rather than=20 - Esperanto which I had previously selected. I tried a great number of combinations of configurations, and this seems to have been the one thing that reliably crashed (when choosing Esperanto) or fixed (when Choosing English/UK). After this the installation seems to be going swimmingly. Hth, Alex Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > Hello, > > Running the graphical installer from the installation image hosted > through IPFS, I can report the following experience: > > The guidance, keyboard configuration & partitioning works well. In fact > all goes charmingly until the stage where the sysconf is shown. That > looks correct too. > > Hitting continue at that point switches to a terminal wher I briefly see > cow-store being started. > > 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. > > I cannot see any error messages in the brief time I see the terminal and > am not sure how to get an error log. > > Happy to run some more commands to get additional information. > > Best wishes, > > Alex > > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> I=E2=80=99ve run =E2=80=9Cmake release=E2=80=9D from the new =E2=80=98ve= rsion-1.1.0=E2=80=99 branch and uploaded >> the result: >> >> https://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/1.1.0rc1 >> >> Alternately (and preferably), you can get it over IPFS: >> >> guix install ipfs >> ipfs daemon & >> ipfs ls QmXpSUnppJgf23LpaKJzRWJbQxwEfybJy9VxF79iTLSXqa >> ipfs get =E2=80=A6 >> >> All the files are signed with my key, also used to sign this message. >> >> Please test things as much as you can, be it the binary installation >> tarball on a =E2=80=9Cforeign=E2=80=9D distro or the ISO image. Once yo= u=E2=80=99ve downloaded, >> just follow the same instructions as before (if you want to use >> =E2=80=98guix-install.sh=E2=80=99, you=E2=80=99ll have to adjust it to u= se the right tarball): >> >> https://guix.gnu.org/download/ >> >> If you encounter an issue, please report it to bug-guix@gnu.org, >> explaining what you did and what you observed. >> >> Notice that there=E2=80=99s no i686-linux installation image and no VM i= mage, >> because of but i can provide >> those later. >> >> If everything goes well, we can publish the release on Monday, 13th, >> with few or no changes beyond translation updates on the =E2=80=98versio= n-1.1.0=E2=80=99 >> branch. >> >> Thanks in advance! :-) >> >> Ludo=E2=80=99.