Installer hangs while connecting to WiFi network

frozen installer in WiFi section -guix 1.1.0

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Hi, the installer frozen when connect with wifi.The driver ath9k_htc is loaded but the installer is frozen.Does not ask for the wifi password.Sorry for my english.

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 17 Apr 22:51 +0200

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Hi SergioBG,
SergioBG BG <sergiobgar@gmail.com> skribis:

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> Hi, the installer frozen when connect with wifi.> The driver ath9k_htc is loaded but the installer is frozen.> Does not ask for the wifi password.

Could you send a picture of the installer WiFi screen when it’s frozen?
Could you then hit ctrl-alt-f12 and take a picture of what’s printedthere?

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> Sorry for my english.

No problem.  If you prefer you can write in French, German, or Spanishand someone will be able to answer you (developers speak other languagestoo but these are the most common.)
Thanks,Ludo’.

SergioBG BG wrote on 18 Apr 10:20 +0200

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Here the screenshot of Frozen.

El vie., 17 abr. 2020 22:51, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> escribió:

Toggle quote (22 lines)> Hi SergioBG,>> SergioBG BG <sergiobgar@gmail.com> skribis:>> > Hi, the installer frozen when connect with wifi.> > The driver ath9k_htc is loaded but the installer is frozen.> > Does not ask for the wifi password.>> Could you send a picture of the installer WiFi screen when it’s frozen?>> Could you then hit ctrl-alt-f12 and take a picture of what’s printed> there?>> > Sorry for my english.>> No problem.  If you prefer you can write in French, German, or Spanish> and someone will be able to answer you (developers speak other languages> too but these are the most common.)>> Thanks,> Ludo’.>

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SergioBG BG wrote on 18 Apr 22:21 +0200

Fwd: bug#40682: frozen installer in WiFi section -guix 1.1.0

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Here the screenshot of Frozen.

El vie., 17 abr. 2020 22:51, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> escribió:

Toggle quote (22 lines)> Hi SergioBG,>> SergioBG BG <sergiobgar@gmail.com> skribis:>> > Hi, the installer frozen when connect with wifi.> > The driver ath9k_htc is loaded but the installer is frozen.> > Does not ask for the wifi password.>> Could you send a picture of the installer WiFi screen when it’s frozen?>> Could you then hit ctrl-alt-f12 and take a picture of what’s printed> there?>> > Sorry for my english.>> No problem.  If you prefer you can write in French, German, or Spanish> and someone will be able to answer you (developers speak other languages> too but these are the most common.)>> Thanks,> Ludo’.>

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 19 Apr 01:30 +0200

Re: bug#40682: frozen installer in WiFi section -guix 1.1.0

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Hi,
SergioBG BG <sergiobgar@gmail.com> skribis:

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> Here the screenshot of Frozen.

Thanks. Looking at the screenshot, it would seem that the installer isstuck somewhere in ‘connman-connect-with-auth’, but it’s hard to tellwhy/where.
I was able to reproduce it in ‘guix system vm’ with the patch below.
Cc: Mathieu in case they have an idea…
To be continued…
Thanks,Ludo’.
PS: Nyacc contains libdbus bindings as an example of its FFI tooling, perhaps we should give it a try and use it here. It could be more robust than piping through ‘connmanctl’.

Toggle diff (66 lines)diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scmindex 0965c4d237..826f6d356d 100644--- a/gnu/system/install.scm+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm@@ -322,6 +322,52 @@ the user's target storage device rather than on the RAM disk."     "Load the @code{uvesafb} kernel module with the right options.")    (default-value #t))) +(define (simulated-wifi-shepherd-services hostapd)+  (define config+    (plain-file "hostapd.conf" "\+interface=wlan1+ssid=Test Net+channel=1\n"))++  (list (shepherd-service+         (provision '(hostapd))+         (requirement '(mac-sim-module unblocked-wifi))+         (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor+                   (list #$(file-append hostapd "/sbin/hostapd")+                         #$config)+                   #:log-file "/var/log/hostapd.log"))+         (stop #~(make-kill-destructor)))+        (shepherd-service+         (provision '(unblocked-wifi))+         (requirement '(mac-sim-module))+         (start #~(lambda _+                    (invoke #$(file-append util-linux "/sbin/rfkill")+                            "unblock" "0")+                    (invoke #$(file-append util-linux "/sbin/rfkill")+                            "unblock" "1")))+         (one-shot? #t))+        (shepherd-service+         (provision '(mac-sim-module))+         (requirement '(term-tty3))+         (modules '((guix build utils)))+         (start #~(lambda _+                    ;; XXX: We can't use 'load-linux-module*' here because it+                    ;; expects a flat module directory.+                    (setenv "LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY"+                            "/run/booted-system/kernel/lib/modules")+                    (invoke #$(file-append kmod "/bin/modprobe")+                            "mac80211_hwsim")))+         (one-shot? #t))))++(define simulated-wifi-service-type+  (service-type+   (name 'simulated-wifi)+   (extensions+    (list (service-extension shepherd-root-service-type+                             simulated-wifi-shepherd-services)))+   (default-value hostapd)+   (description "Run hostapd to simulate WiFi connectivity.")))+ (define %installation-services   ;; List of services of the installation system.   (let ((motd (plain-file "motd" "@@ -366,6 +412,8 @@ Access documentation at any time by pressing Alt-F2.\x1b[0m           ;; The usual services.           (syslog-service) +          (service simulated-wifi-service-type)+           ;; The build daemon.  Register the default substitute server key(s)           ;; as trusted to allow the installation process to use substitutes by           ;; default.

Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 19 Apr 11:57 +0200

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Hey,
I believe this is fixed by ea6594e0 on master.
This is indeed very fragile, and converting it to D-Bus would be theright move. I will have a look to Nyacc! Writing a clean Guile-Dbuslibrary could also be a nice and valuable GSoC/Outreachy project.
In the meantime, could we merge your patch so that we have a hiddensimulated Wifi network available, that can be used in the installertests?
Thanks,
Mathieu

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 19 Apr 16:29 +0200

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severity 40682 importantquit

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 19 Apr 16:30 +0200

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retitle 40682 Installer hangs while connecting to WiFi networkquit

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 00:26 +0200

Re: bug#40682: frozen installer in WiFi section -guix 1.1.0

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Hi,
Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

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> I believe this is fixed by ea6594e0 on master.

Good catch!

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> This is indeed very fragile, and converting it to D-Bus would be the> right move. I will have a look to Nyacc! Writing a clean Guile-Dbus> library could also be a nice and valuable GSoC/Outreachy project.

Yes, it would be ideal to have a pure-Scheme implementation, but in themeantime, perhaps generated bindings via Nyacc could work well enough.

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> In the meantime, could we merge your patch so that we have a hidden> simulated Wifi network available, that can be used in the installer> tests?

I’ve now pushed it as two proper service types: ‘hostapd-service-type’and ‘simulated-wifi-service-type’, the latter using parts of the former.
Note that currently the installer tests bypass connectivity checksaltogether, but perhaps we can still check what comes before, namelynetwork selection?
Thanks,Ludo’.

Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 20 Apr 19:20 +0200

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Hey,

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> I’ve now pushed it as two proper service types: ‘hostapd-service-type’> and ‘simulated-wifi-service-type’, the latter using parts of the former.>> Note that currently the installer tests bypass connectivity checks> altogether, but perhaps we can still check what comes before, namely> network selection?

Yes, maybe we can skip only the connectivity check but still try toconnect to some network. I will have a look later this week.
Almost unrelated topic, it would be nice to provide an interface whereusers can grab a nightly/periodic build of the installer and test thelatest fixes. We are already have "usb-image" and "iso9660-image" jobsin Cuirass. So it could be a link allowing to download the latestsuccessful build or so.
Thanks,
Mathieu

SergioBG BG wrote on 20 Apr 21:40 +0200

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This is good idea for users.
El lun., 20 abr. 2020 a las 19:20, Mathieu Othacehe (<m.othacehe@gmail.com>)escribió:

Toggle quote (23 lines)>> Hey,>> > I’ve now pushed it as two proper service types: ‘hostapd-service-type’> > and ‘simulated-wifi-service-type’, the latter using parts of the former.> >> > Note that currently the installer tests bypass connectivity checks> > altogether, but perhaps we can still check what comes before, namely> > network selection?>> Yes, maybe we can skip only the connectivity check but still try to> connect to some network. I will have a look later this week.>> Almost unrelated topic, it would be nice to provide an interface where> users can grab a nightly/periodic build of the installer and test the> latest fixes. We are already have "usb-image" and "iso9660-image" jobs> in Cuirass. So it could be a link allowing to download the latest> successful build or so.>> Thanks,>> Mathieu>

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 21 Apr 16:50 +0200

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Hi,
Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

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> Almost unrelated topic, it would be nice to provide an interface where> users can grab a nightly/periodic build of the installer and test the> latest fixes. We are already have "usb-image" and "iso9660-image" jobs> in Cuirass. So it could be a link allowing to download the latest> successful build or so.

Yes, it would be nice. We’d need to allow Cuirass to somehow publishraw files, like Hydra does.
Ludo’.

Jacek Podkanski via web wrote on 11 May 20:08 +0200

Installer hangs while connecting to WiFi network

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Can you tell the user to connect to the network manually instead of getting stuck at graphical wifi connection? That would allow to bypass the problem and continue with the installation.

Leo Famulari wrote on 11 May 20:49 +0200

Re: bug#40682: frozen installer in WiFi section -guix 1.1.0

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What is the status of this bug?
If we have a fix, can we make a new installer image? There are people on#guix having trouble getting online in the installer, and I think theyare hitting this issue.

Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 12 May 10:55 +0200

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Hey Leo,

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> If we have a fix, can we make a new installer image? There are people on> #guix having trouble getting online in the installer, and I think they> are hitting this issue.

This bug has been fixed with ea6594e0. However, I left the ticket openbecause I'm supposed to add some testing using the hostapd service Ludoproposed.
Regarding providing a new image, I proposed a patch here[1] so thatCuirass can host fresh installation images built upon master.
Thanks,
Mathieu
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-05/msg00001.html

Ricardo Wurmus via web wrote on 12 May 11:03 +0200

Installer hangs while connecting to WiFi network

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Alternative URL: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40993

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