The GUI installer throws an error

What I did:Ran guix system installer from a DVD.When the system started I switched to tty3 mounted a flash drive and a partition in folders I made in /mnt/.Then I unmounted these disks and removed folders.Then I tried installing the system without any DE/WM.The installer asked me what network something I want to have, I picked DHCP.Then installation failed - "failed to build openssh".It asked me if I want to try again, I pressed yes and the installer threw an error I attached below.Guix version: 1.0.1System: amd64 --Jan

Hello Jan,

Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> skribis:

This looks a lot like this bug:

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35690

In a nutshell, currently the installer cannot be restarted upon failure,

and this is why you got this ugly backtrace.

However, “failed to build openssh” looks like another failure worth

investigating. Do you have more info as to what happened exactly, what

was printed? Can you reproduce it? It would be great if you could post

a picture of the screen at that point.

Thanks,

Ludo’.

Sorry for the delay, I had no free hard drive do test installation

again.

The thing that failed to build was openssl, not openssh. The error

message is "build of /gnu/store/long-sum-openssl-1.0.2p.drv failed".

What I did during the installation:

- whole disk with encryption

- tor, mozilla nss

- i3, xfce, enlightenment

And when the installer asked me if I want to continue without network

connection I plugged-in the ethernet cable.

Okay I've figured out what causes openssl build to fail - continuing

installation without network connection. The installer told

me network connection is required to install the system correctly, but

I thought only packages will be outdated. Is it a bug?

Hello,

Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> skribis:

Network connectivity is definitely required.

That you were able to continue without networking looks like a bug.

However, I just tried, and when networking is unavailable, I get the

“Connection error” box that only allows me to go back to the “Checking

connectivity” dialog; there’s no way to skip that AFAICS.

Or did you turn off networking after you had it on initially?

Thanks,

Ludo’.

Okay, I now know what *probably* have happened. My proprietary

motherboard - MSI PC Mate B350 tricked me - after updating the firmware

and enabling the "UEFI mode" instead of "UEFI or legacy BIOS" I got a

higher resolution and network started to work normally. Before enabling

it, the GUI installer couldn't find network connection itself, so I had

to manually configure network connection by using ifconfig and dhclient,

then I just followed the GUI installer, and it somehow let me continue

with or without networking.

Tried switching back to BIOS mode, but I can't reproduce the bug

anymore. None of this happens on my librebooted machine, tried hard to

break the installation :). Guess that's it, thanks for your time. I'm

probably going to sell this nonfree machine anyway.

Jan

Hi,

Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> skribis:

OK, thanks for explaining; closing the bug.

Ludo’.

tags 36753 notabug

close 36753

quit