installation of 0.8 stops at guile prompt.

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th3kent wrote on 1 Dec 2014 23:01
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hello guix,
as requested by civodul on #guix, here is a bug report.
hardware: 8-year-old hp nx6125 with 512mb memory and 60gb h.d.d
first attempt at installation failed with the following:
Toggle snippet (9 lines)unionfs invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x...unionfs cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0[...]Out of memory: Kill process 2068 (guix) score 526 or sacrifice childKilled process 2068 (guix) total-vm:829080kB, anon-rss:201792kB, file-rss:0kBguix system: error: build failed: unexpected end-of-file2470 operations
i went past this by enabling a swap device.
second attempt at installation failed with "no permissions" when copyingpata_* kernel modules to /gnu/store/*-linux-libre-3.17.2/.
after adding write permissions for user on directory/gnu/store/*-linux-libre-3.17.2/, the installation completedsuccessfully (no errors).
on restarting the laptop and booting from the h.d.d, the reboot stopsat the guile-user prompt. the backtrace shows the following:
Toggle snippet (6 lines)In /gnu/store/*-module-import/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm: 385:7 2 (#<procedure 1e943c0 at /gnu/store/...In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 619:17 1 (for-each #<procedure load-linux-module* (file)> ...
regards,... kennedy tembo.-- former club presidentmidrand toastmastershttp://midrand.tmclub.co.za /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / "[He has] campaigned steadfastly for freedom. X I admire Nelson Mandela ..." / \ - Richard M. Stallman (rms), President, Free Software Foundation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 3 Dec 2014 23:18
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th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:
Toggle quote (12 lines)> hardware: 8-year-old hp nx6125 with 512mb memory and 60gb h.d.d>> first attempt at installation failed with the following:>> unionfs invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x...> unionfs cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0> [...]> Out of memory: Kill process 2068 (guix) score 526 or sacrifice child> Killed process 2068 (guix) total-vm:829080kB, anon-rss:201792kB, file-rss:0kB> guix system: error: build failed: unexpected end-of-file> 2470 operations
This is a sign that too much data was written to the unionfs that sitson the root file system.
Could it be because you forgot to run ‘deco start cow-store /mnt’?
Toggle quote (3 lines)> second attempt at installation failed with "no permissions" when copying> pata_* kernel modules to /gnu/store/*-linux-libre-3.17.2/.
That is weird. Do you remember at what point that happened? Was it atthe end of the ‘guix system init config.scm /mnt’ run?
Files and directories under /gnu/store are meant to be immutable.
Toggle quote (8 lines)> on restarting the laptop and booting from the h.d.d, the reboot stops> at the guile-user prompt. the backtrace shows the following:>> In /gnu/store/*-module-import/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:> 385:7 2 (#<procedure 1e943c0 at /gnu/store/...> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:> 619:17 1 (for-each #<procedure load-linux-module* (file)> ...
Does it show an actual error below that?
Could you post your OS config?
Thanks for the report!
Ludo’.
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th3kent wrote on 5 Dec 2014 19:17
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
Toggle quote (12 lines)> th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:>> [...]>> Out of memory: Kill process 2068 (guix) score 526 or sacrifice child>> Killed process 2068 (guix) total-vm:829080kB, anon-rss:201792kB, file-rss:0kB>> guix system: error: build failed: unexpected end-of-file>> 2470 operations>> This is a sign that too much data was written to the unionfs that sits> on the root file system.>> Could it be because you forgot to run ‘deco start cow-store /mnt’?
i definitely ran ‘deco start cow-store /mnt’ after i created my o.sconfig.
Toggle quote (8 lines)>> second attempt at installation failed with "no permissions" when copying>> pata_* kernel modules to /gnu/store/*-linux-libre-3.17.2/.>> That is weird. Do you remember at what point that happened? Was it at> the end of the ‘guix system init config.scm /mnt’ run?>> Files and directories under /gnu/store are meant to be immutable.
yes, the "no permission" error was after running a second 'guix systeminit ...' command.
Toggle quote (12 lines)>> on restarting the laptop and booting from the h.d.d, the reboot stops>> at the guile-user prompt. the backtrace shows the following:>>>> In /gnu/store/*-module-import/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:>> 385:7 2 (#<procedure 1e943c0 at /gnu/store/...>> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:>> 619:17 1 (for-each #<procedure load-linux-module* (file)> ...>> Does it show an actual error below that?>> Could you post your OS config?
the last line of the backtrace starts with "In Unkown ...".
here is my o.s config:
Toggle snippet (31 lines)(use-modules (gnu) (srfi srfi-26))
(operating-system (host-name "gnusys01") (timezone "Africa/Johannesburg") (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
(initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest) (apply base-initrd file-systems #:extra-modules '("pata_acpi.ko" "pata_atiixp.ko") rest)))
(bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda"))) (file-systems (cons (file-system (device "root") (title 'label) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4")) %base-file-systems))
(users (list (user-account (name "kent") (comment "the wizard of gnu") (group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "audio" "video")) (home-directory "/home/kent")))))
regards,... kennedy tembo.-- former club presidentmidrand toastmastershttp://midrand.tmclub.co.za /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / "[He has] campaigned steadfastly for freedom. X I admire Nelson Mandela ..." / \ - Richard M. Stallman (rms), President, Free Software Foundation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 7 Dec 2014 23:17
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th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:
Toggle quote (3 lines)> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:>> th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:
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Toggle quote (12 lines)>>> on restarting the laptop and booting from the h.d.d, the reboot stops>>> at the guile-user prompt. the backtrace shows the following:>>>>>> In /gnu/store/*-module-import/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:>>> 385:7 2 (#<procedure 1e943c0 at /gnu/store/...>>> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:>>> 619:17 1 (for-each #<procedure load-linux-module* (file)> ...>>>> Does it show an actual error below that?>>>> Could you post your OS config?
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Toggle quote (5 lines)> (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 alreadyincluded these two modules by default. Second, 0.8 would fail whentrying to load the same module twice, which is exactly what would happenhere (this is fixed in ‘master’, around commit 0e704a2.)
Could you try to remove these ‘initrd’ lines and try again?
Thanks in advance,Ludo’.
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kennedy wrote on 12 Dec 2014 21:06
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
Toggle quote (16 lines)> 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 completedsuccessfully on first attempt.
however, the reboot after installation results in a kernel panic. themessages just before the panic are the following,
Toggle snippet (6 lines)groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again laterusermod: no changesadding user 'kent'ERROR: In procedure getpw: entry not found
regards,... kennedy tembo.-- former club presidentmidrand toastmastershttp://midrand.tmclub.co.za /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / "[He has] campaigned steadfastly for freedom. X I admire Nelson Mandela ..." / \ - Richard M. Stallman (rms), President, Free Software Foundation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 12 Dec 2014 23:01
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kennedy <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:
Toggle quote (20 lines)> 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.
So you booted on the USB disk and re-run ‘guix system init’, is thatcorrect?
Did you reformat the root partition before doing that?
Toggle quote (5 lines)> however, the reboot after installation results in a kernel panic. the> messages just before the panic are the following,>> groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later
Could you try removing the /etc/.pwd.lock file on that partition? (Youcan do that on a system booted from the USB stick, and then reboot inthe installed system.)
Thanks,Ludo’.
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th3kent wrote on 13 Dec 2014 20:19
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
Toggle quote (9 lines)> kennedy <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:>> i deleted the lines for "initrd" and the installation completed>> successfully on first attempt.>> So you booted on the USB disk and re-run ‘guix system init’, is that> correct?>> Did you reformat the root partition before doing that?
yes, i booted off my u.s.b disk, reformatted my root partition, andre-installed.
Toggle quote (9 lines)>> however, the reboot after installation results in a kernel panic. the>> messages just before the panic are the following,>>>> groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later>> Could you try removing the /etc/.pwd.lock file on that partition? (You> can do that on a system booted from the USB stick, and then reboot in> the installed system.)
i removed /etc/.pwd.lock, as well as /etc/group.lock, and the reboottries to enter the guile prompt ("Entering new prompt ...") and i get akernel panic.
just f.y.i, i can't use shift-page.up to scrollback through the bootmessages.
regards,... kennedy tembo.-- former club presidentmidrand toastmastershttp://midrand.tmclub.co.za /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / "[He has] campaigned steadfastly for freedom. X I admire Nelson Mandela ..." / \ - Richard M. Stallman (rms), President, Free Software Foundation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 13 Dec 2014 21:15
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th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:
Toggle quote (26 lines)> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:>> kennedy <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:>>> i deleted the lines for "initrd" and the installation completed>>> successfully on first attempt.>>>> So you booted on the USB disk and re-run ‘guix system init’, is that>> correct?>>>> Did you reformat the root partition before doing that?>> yes, i booted off my u.s.b disk, reformatted my root partition, and> re-installed.>>>> however, the reboot after installation results in a kernel panic. the>>> messages just before the panic are the following,>>>>>> groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later>>>> Could you try removing the /etc/.pwd.lock file on that partition? (You>> can do that on a system booted from the USB stick, and then reboot in>> the installed system.)>> i removed /etc/.pwd.lock, as well as /etc/group.lock, and the reboot> tries to enter the guile prompt ("Entering new prompt ...") and i get a> kernel panic.
But do you actually get the Guile prompt?
If you did and were brave enough, we could coordinate on IRC to try andinvestigate, for instance to check whether / is writable, things likethat.
Toggle quote (3 lines)> just f.y.i, i can't use shift-page.up to scrollback through the boot> messages.
I’m running out of ideas, sorry.
If that is an option for you, could you try starting anew? That is,boot on the USB image, erase the target partition with “mkfs.ext4/dev/xyzN”, and proceed with installation. We must have missedsomething, but I don’t see what.
Thanks,Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 8 Feb 2015 19:18
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Hello,
I’m closing this bug for now. I would be grateful if you could tryinstalling 0.8.1, released two weeks ago, and let us know if you canreproduce this problem.
Thanks in advance,Ludo’.
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