Guix graphical installation failure on all drives with size > 1 TiB

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  • Danny Milosavljevic
  • Mathieu Othacehe
  • Mathieu Othacehe
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Danny Milosavljevic
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Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 24 Jul 2019 14:56
20190724145558.1d854ed9@scratchpost.org
Hi,

using the Guix graphical installation method, one cannot install Guix on a drive
with more than 1 TiB. (symptom: "null pointer dereference" in mkpart)

The reason is a bug in guile-parted.

An example is to use the "separate /home" option with a 2 TiB disk.

The fix that lets me install is:


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diff --git a/parted/unit.scm b/parted/unit.scm
index 6818b7e..68862a8 100644
--- a/parted/unit.scm
+++ b/parted/unit.scm
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
out-range)))
(if (return-int->bool result)
(values (car
- (parse-c-struct c-sector (list int)))
+ (parse-c-struct c-sector (list sector-type)))
(pointer->geometry
(dereference-pointer out-range)))
(values #f #f)))))

However, even after that, disk-print, if used, prints nonsensical (negative)
values for "free" (but installation succeeds).

That bug prevents graphical installation on any drive bigger than 1 TiB.
Let's make a bugfix Guix release shortly.
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 24 Jul 2019 18:12
(name . Danny Milosavljevic)(address . dannym@scratchpost.org)(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87y30nif7n.fsf@gmail.com
Hello Danny,

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> However, even after that, disk-print, if used, prints nonsensical (negative)
> values for "free" (but installation succeeds).
>
> That bug prevents graphical installation on any drive bigger than 1 TiB.
> Let's make a bugfix Guix release shortly.

Your fix seems ok for me, thank you! I don't get why you negative values
though. I'll try to find a big hard drive to understand this before
pushing this patch.

Thanks,

Mathieu
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 13 Apr 2020 10:45
(name . Danny Milosavljevic)(address . dannym@scratchpost.org)(address . 36783@debbugs.gnu.org)
87mu7fn58u.fsf@gmail.com
Hello,

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> Your fix seems ok for me, thank you! I don't get why you negative values
> though. I'll try to find a big hard drive to understand this before
> pushing this patch.

I still don't have a big enough hard drive to test it, but I applied
your patch anyway. If someone with hard drive > 1 TiB is willing to
investigate why:

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[disk-print] prints nonsensical (negative) values for "free"

that would be nice :)

Thanks,

Mathieu
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Mathieu Othacehe wrote on 30 Jul 2020 17:19
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