Failed install with 1.4.0 installer-dump-2464c83a

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Vagrant Cascadian wrote on 1 Mar 2023 01:36
Failed install with 1.4.0 installer-dump-2464c73a
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87sfepe28o.fsf@yucca
Tried the guix installer 1.4.0, and it seemed to be going smoothly,
downloading substitutes... but eventually timed out waiting for
substitutes...

The "Resume" option for the install dropped me back to selecting locale,
keyboard, substitutes, root password, user, etc. without actually
seeming to resume anything, and even re-downloaded all the same
substitutes, apparently.

When it failed, it obscured the error messages, although apparently they
are also logged on tty12 (is there a log file somewhere?)

This was on a virtual machine running virt-manager with qemu (hosted on
a Debian machine, fwiw), with virtio network and virtio disk.

Will try again sometime soon...


live well,
vagrant
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Josselin Poiret wrote on 1 Mar 2023 11:14
87zg8wn5gc.fsf@jpoiret.xyz
Hi Vagrant,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

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> Tried the guix installer 1.4.0, and it seemed to be going smoothly,
> downloading substitutes... but eventually timed out waiting for
> substitutes...
>
> The "Resume" option for the install dropped me back to selecting locale,
> keyboard, substitutes, root password, user, etc. without actually
> seeming to resume anything, and even re-downloaded all the same
> substitutes, apparently.
>
> When it failed, it obscured the error messages, although apparently they
> are also logged on tty12 (is there a log file somewhere?)
>
> This was on a virtual machine running virt-manager with qemu (hosted on
> a Debian machine, fwiw), with virtio network and virtio disk.
>
> Will try again sometime soon...
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant

I can't find the installer dump on dump.guix.gnu.org unfortunately
:(. Can you look into directories like /tmp/dump.XXXXX? There should be
a .tar.gz somewhere of the dump.

Things that drop you back to selecting locale seem like the whole
installer crashing rather than just the resume option working. In
general, we have some issues with handling `guix system init` problems
in the installer.

Best,
--
Josselin Poiret
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Vagrant Cascadian wrote on 2 Mar 2023 01:09
87r0u8vws7.fsf@contorta
On 2023-03-01, Josselin Poiret wrote:
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> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
>> Tried the guix installer 1.4.0, and it seemed to be going smoothly,
>> downloading substitutes... but eventually timed out waiting for
>> substitutes...
>>
>> The "Resume" option for the install dropped me back to selecting locale,
>> keyboard, substitutes, root password, user, etc. without actually
>> seeming to resume anything, and even re-downloaded all the same
>> substitutes, apparently.
>>
>> When it failed, it obscured the error messages, although apparently they
>> are also logged on tty12 (is there a log file somewhere?)
...
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> I can't find the installer dump on dump.guix.gnu.org unfortunately
> :(.

It is possible I typoed it somehow, as I filed the report on another
machine and eyeballed the name...


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> Can you look into directories like /tmp/dump.XXXXX? There should be
> a .tar.gz somewhere of the dump.

No, that was probably lost when I powered it down. If the dump was
stored on the to-be-installed-filesystem somewhere, there might be a
chance to recover it?

I had assumed when it said it uploaded the installer dump that it had
done so successfully... (maybe a way to more easily confirm success or
failure of the dump upload might be worth implementing?)


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> Things that drop you back to selecting locale seem like the whole
> installer crashing rather than just the resume option working. In
> general, we have some issues with handling `guix system init` problems
> in the installer.

Ah well, I will try again with that installer and/or the "latest"
installer ... and if I still have similar issues will report back
... and will be more determined to capture any relevent dump files!


If I feel adventurous, I might even try on the new laptop itself. :)


Thanks for the quick response!


live well,
vagrant
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Josselin Poiret wrote on 2 Mar 2023 10:02
87edq7le4l.fsf@jpoiret.xyz
Hi Vagrant,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

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>> Can you look into directories like /tmp/dump.XXXXX? There should be
>> a .tar.gz somewhere of the dump.
>
> No, that was probably lost when I powered it down. If the dump was
> stored on the to-be-installed-filesystem somewhere, there might be a
> chance to recover it?

No, unfortunately, it's only on the /tmp of the live system.

Toggle quote (4 lines)
> I had assumed when it said it uploaded the installer dump that it had
> done so successfully... (maybe a way to more easily confirm success or
> failure of the dump upload might be worth implementing?)

You mean, manually checking that the upload is actually present on the
server? That could be doable, right.

Toggle quote (6 lines)
> Ah well, I will try again with that installer and/or the "latest"
> installer ... and if I still have similar issues will report back
> ... and will be more determined to capture any relevent dump files!
>
> If I feel adventurous, I might even try on the new laptop itself. :)

Have fun ?

Best,
--
Josselin Poiret
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 6 Mar 2023 23:59
(name . Vagrant Cascadian)(address . vagrant@debian.org)
878rg9fpvk.fsf@gnu.org
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:

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> On 2023-03-01, Josselin Poiret wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

[...]

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>> I can't find the installer dump on dump.guix.gnu.org unfortunately
>> :(.
>
> It is possible I typoed it somehow, as I filed the report on another
> machine and eyeballed the name...

I used my superpowers and found the typo:


:-)

Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 6 Mar 2023 23:59
control message for bug #61881
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Vagrant Cascadian wrote on 14 Mar 2023 00:21
Re: bug#61881: Failed install with 1.4.0 installer-dump-2464c83a
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)
875yb4nsos.fsf@wireframe
On 2023-03-06, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:
>
>> On 2023-03-01, Josselin Poiret wrote:
>>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I can't find the installer dump on dump.guix.gnu.org unfortunately
>>> :(.
>>
>> It is possible I typoed it somehow, as I filed the report on another
>> machine and eyeballed the name...
>
> I used my superpowers and found the typo:
>
> https://dump.guix.gnu.org/download/installer-dump-2464c83a

Thanks for tracking that down!

At any rate, I successfully managed to install on both on physical and
virtual hardware...

My guess with what caused the original failure was an unstable wireless
connection on the host system.

My latter installs on the hardware itself, and a virtual machine as
well.

live well,
vagrant
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