Graphical installer: Selecting a partition scheme always takes me back to the start

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  • Mathieu Othacehe
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Luis Felipe wrote on 9 May 2022 15:37
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Hi,

Using the latest installer image (l6dfrnjhhjf3axjndk290qsgxj0bzpgm-image.iso) I can't install the system because everytime I select a partition scheme, the installer takes me back to the language selection step.

It seems at least two other people have experienced the same issue (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-06/msg00136.html).

I didn't take note of the exact installation steps nor the machine specs, but I can provide that information later if you consider it necessary.

Best,


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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 12 Nov 2022 14:43
(name . Luis Felipe)(address . luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com)(address . 55336@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hello Luis,

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> Using the latest installer image
> (l6dfrnjhhjf3axjndk290qsgxj0bzpgm-image.iso) I can't install the
> system because everytime I select a partition scheme, the installer
> takes me back to the language selection step.

The latest installer offers a core-dump upload mechanism that should
help diagnosing this issue. Any chance you could try again with

Thanks,

Mathieu
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Luis Felipe wrote on 20 Nov 2022 14:28
(name . Mathieu Othacehe)(address . othacehe@gnu.org)(address . 55336@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hey Mathieu,

On Saturday, November 12th, 2022 at 13:43, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> wrote:

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> Hello Luis,
>

> > Using the latest installer image
> > (l6dfrnjhhjf3axjndk290qsgxj0bzpgm-image.iso) I can't install the
> > system because everytime I select a partition scheme, the installer
> > takes me back to the language selection step.
>

>

> The latest installer offers a core-dump upload mechanism that should
> help diagnosing this issue. Any chance you could try again with
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1689729/details, or later :)?

I tried again with w0wi4jvanaddk1zcvwzhlnn7fkfwab82-image.iso in the same machine and the issue is gone. I could install the system almost flawlesly. So no oportunity to try out the new mechanism :)

I'll report my installation experience later to help-guix.

I'm closing this issue now.

Thanks a lot,
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 21 Nov 2022 09:33
(name . Luis Felipe)(address . luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com)(address . 55336@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hey,

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> I tried again with w0wi4jvanaddk1zcvwzhlnn7fkfwab82-image.iso in the
> same machine and the issue is gone. I could install the system almost
> flawlesly. So no oportunity to try out the new mechanism :)

Thanks a lot for testing again and reporting :)

Mathieu
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Simon Streit wrote on 22 Nov 2022 21:12
(address . 55336@debbugs.gnu.org)(address . luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com)
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Hello,

Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:

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> Problem solved.

I just ran into this same problem with an old machine.

Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from

Please find attached some logs too:
Attachment: installer-backtrace
Attachment: installer-result
Kind regards
Simon
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 23 Nov 2022 09:18
(name . Simon Streit)(address . simon@netpanic.org)
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Hello Simon,

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> I just ran into this same problem with an old machine.

Interesting, thanks for the report.

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> Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details.
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> Please find attached some logs too:

It looks like you experimented a crash (segfault or so), and the
backtrace is not really helpful here sadly.

What would be interesting is to share the core dump, either by copying
the /tmp/installer-core-dump file after the crash, or by using the dump
upload mechanism and reporting the crash id.

Thanks for your help,

Mathieu
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Simon Streit wrote on 28 Nov 2022 21:06
(name . Mathieu Othacehe)(address . othacehe@gnu.org)
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Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:

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>> Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
>> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details.
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>> Please find attached some logs too:
>
> It looks like you experimented a crash (segfault or so), and the
> backtrace is not really helpful here sadly.

Please visit the core dump online at [1] for a while.

I noticed this behaviour happens when placing a hyphon inbetween two
words in the hostname. The installer doesn't reset when there is no
hyphen. I will try to complete the installation to confirm that it
usually works without the hyphen. I'm still at
axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso.

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Simon Streit wrote on 28 Nov 2022 21:19
(name . Mathieu Othacehe)(address . othacehe@gnu.org)
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Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org> writes:

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> Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:
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>>> Disk image is: axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso from
>>> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/125952/details.
>>>
>>> Please find attached some logs too:
>>
>> It looks like you experimented a crash (segfault or so), and the
>> backtrace is not really helpful here sadly.
>
> Please visit the core dump online at [1] for a while.
>
> I noticed this behaviour happens when placing a hyphon inbetween two
> words in the hostname. The installer doesn't reset when there is no
> hyphen. I will try to complete the installation to confirm that it
> usually works without the hyphen. I'm still at
> axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso.

That claim doesn't seem right either. Only after rebooting the machine
and setting `guix' as hostname doesn't reset the installer.

Will report back.
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Simon Streit wrote on 29 Nov 2022 21:24
(name . Mathieu Othacehe)(address . othacehe@gnu.org)
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Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org> writes:
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>> I noticed this behaviour happens when placing a hyphon inbetween two
>> words in the hostname. The installer doesn't reset when there is no
>> hyphen. I will try to complete the installation to confirm that it
>> usually works without the hyphen. I'm still at
>> axygxkgkgcgbk2gjd6q521h85shp7hwf-image.iso.
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> That claim doesn't seem right either. Only after rebooting the machine
> and setting `guix' as hostname doesn't reset the installer.
>
> Will report back.

The installer went through with setting the hostname to guix.
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