Problem installing on hardware

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Steve Greenburg wrote on 30 Jun 2022 07:32
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I wasn't able to install guix on hardware on a GPT partitioned drive. First I thought it was because I deleted sdc6 and remade it, but after rebooting got the same error. I use dd to copy the iso image to a thumb drive and boot from it in UEFI, then go through the installer which fails at the partitioning step. the other partitions sdc3-sdc5 have linux installs already. Tried to put it on sdc6 and put mount point /
Here is the backtrace. Is there anything I can do to investigate further and install guix?

In gnu/system/uuid.scm:
319:2 19 (uuid->string . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1669:16 18 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 17 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 16 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 15 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 14 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 13 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 12 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 11 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 10 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 9 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 8 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1667:16 7 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1764:13 6 (_ #<&compound-exception components: (#<&error> #<&origin origin: "match"> #<&message message: "no matching pattern"> #<&irritants irritants: (#f ext4)> #<&exception-with-kind-and-arg…>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
619:8 5 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f6cf44e9c80> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> f…>) …))
619:8 4 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f6cf44e9c80> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key arg…>) …) #))
In ice-9/ports.scm:
463:17 3 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
619:8 2 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f6cf44e9c80> match-error ("match" "no matching pattern" (#f ext4))) #<output: /tmp/last-installer-error 18>))
159:9 1 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f6cf44e9c80> match-error ("match" "no matching pattern" (#f ext4))) #<output: /tmp/last-installer-error 18>))
In unknown file:
0 (make-stack #t)
ice-9/eval.scm:159:9: Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no matching pattern" (#f ext4))'.

Here is the partition layout (fdisk -l /dev/sdc):

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sdc2 1050624 9439231 8388608 4G Linux swap
/dev/sdc3 9439232 219152383 209713152 100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdc4 219152384 303038463 83886080 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdc5 303038464 386924543 83886080 40G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdc6 386924544 500117503 113192960 54G Linux filesystem
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Josselin Poiret wrote on 30 Jun 2022 20:54
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Hi,

Steve Greenburg <beethoven3322@hotmail.com> writes:

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> I wasn't able to install guix on hardware on a GPT partitioned drive. First I thought it was because I deleted sdc6 and remade it, but after rebooting got the same error. I use dd to copy the iso image to a thumb drive and boot from it in UEFI, then go through the installer which fails at the partitioning step. the other partitions sdc3-sdc5 have linux installs already. Tried to put it on sdc6 and put mount point /
> Here is the backtrace. Is there anything I can do to investigate further and install guix?

Did you try with the 1.3 image, or the latest one? The latter should
have a lot of improvements over the former.

Are you using the graphical installer or the manual way? It's not clear
to me whether you get that backtrace with the installer or directly with
`guix` invocations. We have a handy error dump tool in case of
installer bugs that was introduced after 1.3, and if that's your case
it'd help go into more details about what's going wrong.

If you're going the manual way, could you send your config.scm, possibly
redacting the sensitive parts?

Best,
--
Josselin Poiret
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