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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org>
Cc: Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com>, 38608@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38608: enable --fallback for the guix graphical installer
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:28:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woaf82i4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sn2jxab.fsf@gnu.org> (Brett Gilio's message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:02:36 -0600")

Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org> skribis:

> Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I can't install guix because I keep getting substitute download errors.
>>
>> It's really punishing having to restart the install process after a
>> download error.
>>
>
> I actually don't know how our installer works that well, so I am going
> to leave the issue of whether to default to `--fallback` is the right
> decision to somebody else.
>
> However, for anybody reading this: does our installer dump logs
> anywhere? That seems like a more useful bit of information so we can
> triage and possibily fix why you are not receiving substitutes.

The “GUI” dumps logs in /tmp upon crashes, but in this case it’s not a
GUI issue, so there’s no log around.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-29 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-14  6:45 bug#38608: enable --fallback for the guix graphical installer Nathan Dehnel
2019-12-24  2:02 ` Brett Gilio
2019-12-29 17:28   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-12-29 17:28 ` Ludovic Courtès

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