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If you follow the guided graphical install guix will fail to reconfigure
afterwards.
Everytime you will reconfigure it will say no space left on device. On
/boot.
the command to reconfigure i runed was: sudo guix system reconfigure
/etc/config.scm
Even if it is a new installation. I tried to format the disk seperately
and then install Guix but the same thing happen.
The only way to work around this bug if you use the graphical install,
is to choose manually partition the disk at the partition step of the
installer.
This bug was reproducible everytime in my machine with the latest iso
yesterday.
iso code: GUIX_i686-LINUX_024B273
Marinus Savoritias
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(Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:43:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
From: Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835@gmail.com>
To: Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org>
Cc: 43879@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43879: Problem with graphical installer
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:41:32 +0200
Hi Marinius,
Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org> writes:
> If you follow the guided graphical install guix will fail to
> reconfigure afterwards.
>
> Everytime you will reconfigure it will say no space left on device. On
> /boot.
The default installation should not create a separate /boot partition,
only creates /boot/efi for EFI installations when it cannot be already
found.
Could you provide the partition map you had when the error happened? A
simple df -h would do the trick.
Also, could you confirm the bootloader you were using (grub,
grub-efi...)?
Best regards,
Miguel
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(Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:19:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
To: Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835@gmail.com>
Cc: 43879@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43879: Problem with graphical installer
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:18:14 +0200
Hi,
The steps that I followed were:
1. Use guided installation using full disk with graphical installer
2. I selected use entire disk and not a separate /home
3. It gave me the warning that its going to format the disk.
At that point it formatted and I rebooted into the new system. There
were two partitions there.
One /boot/efi and one root (/). Every time I tried to reconfigure it
always ended with /boot not having enough space. At that point I went
into the /boot partition to check what are the files. I curiously found
that the files from the previous installation of Gentoo were there. Even
though the installer said that it formatted the disk.
I was using the default that the guided installation uses. I didn't
change anything there.
At that point as I said I formatted the disk separately to make sure it
was properly formatted this time but the same thing happened.
The only way I could work around the bug was by selecting the manual
partitioning instead of guided in the graphical installer.
Regards,
Marinus Savoritias
On 10/19/20 4:41 PM, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote:
> Hi Marinius,
>
> Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org> writes:
>> If you follow the guided graphical install guix will fail to
>> reconfigure afterwards.
>>
>> Everytime you will reconfigure it will say no space left on device. On
>> /boot.
> The default installation should not create a separate /boot partition,
> only creates /boot/efi for EFI installations when it cannot be already
> found.
>
> Could you provide the partition map you had when the error happened? A
> simple df -h would do the trick.
>
> Also, could you confirm the bootloader you were using (grub,
> grub-efi...)?
>
> Best regards,
> Miguel
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(Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:05:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Hi,
I CC the list, as we are currently on freeze, but this might require a
fix or at least a big explanation somewhere, my bad for not answering
soon enough. :-(
Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> The steps that I followed were:
>
> 1. Use guided installation using full disk with graphical installer
>
> 2. I selected use entire disk and not a separate /home
>
> 3. It gave me the warning that its going to format the disk.
Testing this I think this warning may be the confusion source. "All
data will be lost" doesn't include in this case the old ESP partition
(the one in /boot/efi) as that one is not removed when it exists.
> [...] I curiously found that the files from the previous installation
> of Gentoo were there. Even though the installer said that it formatted
> the disk.
To clarify this I propose the attached patch.
> I was using the default that the guided installation uses. I didn't
> change anything there.
Probably it's too late to add new options to that list, or a new
selection step when the partitioning is guided asking if esp should be
kept, as the tests have to be updated too.
> At that point as I said I formatted the disk separately to make sure
> it was properly formatted this time but the same thing happened.
>
> The only way I could work around the bug was by selecting the manual
> partitioning instead of guided in the graphical installer.
I'm throwing a guess here: did you format the root partition but not
/boot/efi the second time?
Happy hacking!
Miguel
To: Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835@gmail.com>,
Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 43879@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43879: Problem with graphical installer
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 15:52:00 +0100
On 10/31/20 1:04 PM, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I CC the list, as we are currently on freeze, but this might require a
> fix or at least a big explanation somewhere, my bad for not answering
> soon enough. :-(
>
> Marinus Savoritias <marinus.savoritias@disroot.org> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The steps that I followed were:
>>
>> 1. Use guided installation using full disk with graphical installer
>>
>> 2. I selected use entire disk and not a separate /home
>>
>> 3. It gave me the warning that its going to format the disk.
>
> Testing this I think this warning may be the confusion source. "All
> data will be lost" doesn't include in this case the old ESP partition
> (the one in /boot/efi) as that one is not removed when it exists.
>
>> [...] I curiously found that the files from the previous installation
>> of Gentoo were there. Even though the installer said that it formatted
>> the disk.
>
> To clarify this I propose the attached patch.
Agreed on this part. I think there should be a clarification.
>
>> I was using the default that the guided installation uses. I didn't
>> change anything there.
>
> Probably it's too late to add new options to that list, or a new
> selection step when the partitioning is guided asking if esp should be
> kept, as the tests have to be updated too.
>
>> At that point as I said I formatted the disk separately to make sure
>> it was properly formatted this time but the same thing happened.
>>
>> The only way I could work around the bug was by selecting the manual
>> partitioning instead of guided in the graphical installer.
>
> I'm throwing a guess here: did you format the root partition but not
> /boot/efi the second time?
If you mean the workaround I found in the end no. I deleted both of the
partitions. I also deleted both partitions when I tried to do it
separately from the installation.
That is what makes this bug so interesting. Because even if you delete
both the partitions with parted. And then start the graphical guix
installation it doesn't solve anything.
The only way to solve it is to format both the partitions manually with
the installer.
Marinus
>
> Happy hacking!
> Miguel
>
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(Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:48:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: bug#43879: Problem with graphical installer
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:47:32 +0100
Hello Miguel,
> + ;; TRANSLATORS: The ~{ and ~} format specifiers are used to iterate the list
> + ;; of device names of the user partitions that will be formatted.
> + (run-confirmation-page (format #f (G_ "We are about to write the configured \
> +partition table to the disk and format the partitions listed below. All its \
> +data will be lost. Do you wish to continue?~%~{ - ~a~%~}")
> + (map user-partition-file-name
> + (filter user-partition-need-formatting?
> + partitions)))
"All its data will be lost" refers to the hard drive. Maybe we should
say "Their data will be lost", referring to the partitions?
Otherwise, looks nice.
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Hi Mathieu,
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:
> "All its data will be lost" refers to the hard drive. Maybe we should
> say "Their data will be lost", referring to the partitions?
Thanks for the review, I overlooked that.
> Otherwise, looks nice.
Pushed as bc9e66f0feb25c77898222cfe5f3ef484dcee95e with the message
changed as suggested.
Happy hacking!
Miguel
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