Installation (guix substitute) sometimes gets stuck on my Beebox mini
PC with r8169 Ethernet controller.
For the x86_64 graphical installer, I selected everything.
After it had downloaded plenty of other substitutes, installation
printed this and got stuck:
substitute: Liste der Substitute von „https://ci.guix.gnu.org“ wird
aktualisiert … 100.0%
22,2 MB werden heruntergeladen
cairo-1.16.0-doc 135KiB 616KiB/s 00:00 [##################]
100.0%
I waited 10 minutes. Booting the installer image again, it does not
again get stuck. Installation was successful now. I propose this
patch, but will retry some more if installation really never freezes
with USB Ethernet.
IIRC I had had similar problems with this Ethernet socket in the past.
Note: I still need to test the patch.
Regards,
Florian
From: Florian Pelz <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 18:25:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] installer: Warn about r8169 Ethernet controller.
Because guix substitute sometimes freezes.
* gnu/installer/hardware.scm (%unsupported-linux-modules): Add it.
---
gnu/installer/hardware.scm | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gnu/installer/hardware.scm b/gnu/installer/hardware.scm
index cd1a1767d8..8e92949977 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/hardware.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/hardware.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2022 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2022 Florian Pelz <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -55,7 +56,11 @@ (define %unsupported-linux-modules
"radeon"
;; Multimedia.
- "ivtv"))
+ "ivtv"
+
+ ;; Manual additions.
+ "r8169" ;works, but guix substitutes occasionally freezes
+ ))
(define unsupported-pci-device?
;; Arrange to load the module alias database only once.
base-commit: 020184fd39c6244e0336db3c608d3946b8d20490
--
2.38.1
