Guix Stand-alone OS installation Error - T410 - x86 - intel - lenova

Hi,

Requirement: To install Guix as a stand-alone OS in Lenova Thinkpad T410 hardware laptop x86

Issue: the installer encountered an unexpected problem and the backtrack is attached herewith

Could you please help in resolving this issue?

“Unable to locate key map update file”

Thanks,

Pon ArunKumar R

Ok thanks. Did you use 1.0.1 image from http://guix.gnu.org/download/?

Mathieu

Pon Arun Kumar R writes:

I downloaded the 1.0.1 image from the guix webpage and wrote a bootable DVD

and used the graphical installer on a machine (lenova thinkpad t410 64bit)

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:14 AM Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>

wrote:

I had the same issue on a Hystou P04 and managed to reproduce it several

times.

Attached to this email is the dump of the installer.

Start the installation process but try to make it fail,

for example by removing the EFI partition during the guided partition,

and when the "Installation failed" menu appear choose "Retrysystem

install",

on the right. Then restart the installation process with the

same choices and the installer will crash after selecting the keyboard

layout

variant.

Some time, if you wait for a few minutes before retrying the

installation, the

crash won't be triggered but then the disk you partitioned during the

first

installation process won't be available anymore in the disk selection

menu.

The choices I entered in the installation wizard was:

1. English

2. United States

3. Graphical install

4. Europe

5. Paris

6. English (US)

7. English (intl., with AltGr dead keys)

In ice-9/eval.scm:

619:8 19 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> final-…>) #))

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

829:9 18 (catch #t #<procedure 2ee4920 at ice-9/eval.scm:330:13 ()> #<procedure 2ee4880 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:1048:2 _> _)

In ice-9/eval.scm:

619:8 17 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> fi…> …)) …))

626:19 16 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> fi…> …)) …))

In ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:

189:6 15 (run-installer-steps #:steps _ #:rewind-strategy _ #:menu-proc _)

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

829:9 14 (catch srfi-34 #<procedure 2cf92c0 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 ()> #<procedure 33e2320 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 (key c)> _)

829:9 13 (catch srfi-34 #<procedure 2cfb6c0 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 ()> #<procedure 33e2050 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 (key c)> _)

829:9 12 (catch srfi-34 #<procedure 2cfb4c0 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 ()> #<procedure 33e2000 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 (key c)> _)

829:9 11 (catch srfi-34 #<procedure 2cfb2c0 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 ()> #<procedure 2e65fa0 at ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:144:7 (key c)> _)

In ./gnu/installer/steps.scm:

182:21 10 (_)

In ice-9/eval.scm:

619:8 9 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140>) #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> fin…>) #))

In ./gnu/installer/keymap.scm:

163:7 8 (_ _)

In unknown file:

7 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A" ("Unable to locate keymap update file") #f)

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

751:25 6 (dispatch-exception 4 misc-error (#f "~A" ("Unable to locate keymap update file") #f))

In ice-9/eval.scm:

619:8 5 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> final-…>) …))

619:8 4 (_ #(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> #<<installer> name: newt init: #<procedure init ()> exit: #<procedure exit ()> exit-error: #<procedure exit-error (file key args)> f…>) …) #))

In ice-9/ports.scm:

462:17 3 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)

In ice-9/eval.scm:

619:8 2 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> misc-error (#f "~A" ("Unable to locate keymap update file") #f)) #<output: /tmp/last-installer-error 12>))

159:9 1 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1558140> misc-error (#f "~A" ("Unable to locate keymap update file") #f)) #<output: /tmp/last-installer-error 12>))

In unknown file:

0 (make-stack #t)

ice-9/eval.scm:159:9: Unable to locate keymap update file

Hi Mathieu,

When you get a chance, could you please share the details or suggestions to

proceed further with my GUIX installation on the lenova T410 x86 Intel?

Appreciate your help!

Regards,

Pon ArunKumar Ramalingam

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:18 AM Pon Arun Kumar R <ponarunkumar@gmail.com>

wrote:

Hello !

Sorry for my late reply. This is strange because the error seems to

indicate an issue with kmscon but you wouldn't get there if it was failing

to start. Could you try to disable the NVIDIA GPU in the bios and report

back?

Thanks for your patience,

Mathieu

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Le mer. 11 déc. 2019 à 17:08, Pon Arun Kumar R <ponarunkumar@gmail.com> a

écrit :

Hello !

You're hitting two problems.

The first one is the one from the screenshot attached.

Then, you seem to restart the installation and it fails with "Unable to

locate keymap update file" which is (sadly) expected, because installation

restart always fails.

So we need to understand why the installer tries to build binutils instead

of relying on substitutes and why it fails.

Someone ?

Mathieu

Le ven. 13 déc. 2019 à 18:59, Pon Arun Kumar R <ponarunkumar@gmail.com> a

écrit :

Hi!

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

Could it be that there was a transient networking issue at the time of

installation?

Thanks,

Ludo’.

This should allow us to close:

And other issues I'm not aware of?

Mathieu

Fixed by 1d02052067e04d7dd8fd1ec17557ca02a30b9bcf.

Thanks,

Mathieu