bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive

[Tim Magee]

I attempted to intall GNU Guix using the 1.2.0 GuixSD installation image. The 
install failed with an exception when formatting the hard drive. Here follows 
the backtrace:



The installer has encountered an unexpected problem. The backtrace is displayed 
below. Please report it by email to .

In ./gnu/installer/parted.scm:
  1258:19 19 (user-partition->file-system _)
In gnu/system/uuid.scm:
317:2 18 (uuid->string . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1669:16 17 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 16 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 15 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 14 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 13 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 12 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 11 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16 10 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16  9 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1667:16  8 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1669:16  7 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1764:13  6 (_ #<&compound-exception components: (#<&error> #<&origin: 
"match"> #<&message message: "no matching pattern"> #<&irritants irritants: (#f 
ext4)> #<&exception-with-kind-and-arg...>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
619:8  5 (_ #(#(# #< name: 
newt init: # exit: # exit-error: 
# f...>) ...))
619:8  4 (_ #(#(#(# #< 
name: newt init: # exit: # exit-error: 
# f...>) ...))
In ice-9/ports.scm:
   463:17  3 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
691:9  2 (_ #(#(# match-error ("match" 
"no matching pattern" (#f ext4))) #))
159:9  1 (_ #(#(# match-error ("match" 
"no matching pattern" (#f ext4))) #))
In unknown file:
   0 (make-stack #t)
ice-9/eval.scm:159:9: Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no 
matching pattern" (#f ext4))'.



@nckx on the IRC recommend I include the output of fdisk -l in my bug report. 
So here goes:

Disk /dev/sda: 931.53GiB, 100020104886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDS100T2B0A-
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 425B5102-51E0-4994-BC78-FBE09F62D9E3

Device   Start    End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048    1126399    1124352   549M EFI System
/dev/sda2  1126400    1132543   6144 3M BIOS boot
/dev/sda3  1132544    8943615    7811072   3.7G Linux swap
/dev/sda4  8943616 1953523711 1944580096 927.3G Linux filesystem

bug#44872: Fw: bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive

[Tim Magee]

> It looks like the UUID extraction of an "ext4" partition failed. Did you
use automatic or manual partitioning?


I used automatic partitioning this time. But it failed with an exception when I 
had previously tried manual partitioning as well. Though I believe it was a 
different error then.

bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive

[Tim Magee]

I successfully installed GNU Guix.

The work around I used for this bug is I simply ran `sudo dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda`. Basically, I think the existence of an old
GPT partition table is causing problems on a new install though I'm not
sure why.

Unfortunately, this computer is my daily driver and I need it working so
I can't run any more tests at this time.

bug#42301: Build of GNU Solfege fails

[Tim Magee]

It works for me now. I will close if nobody beats me to it.



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bug#42301: Build of GNU Solfege fails

[Tim Magee]

GNU Solfege 3.22.2 refuses to build.

Here is what I believe is the relevant part of the log file:

Converting to PNG...LC_ALL=C makeinfo -I topdocs --no-split --no-headers
--output FAQ topdocs/FAQ.texi
utf8 "\xF6" does not map to Unicode at
/gnu/store/w8k9hcigvhzrlrblv8lgqj77sm3833rs-texinfo-6.7/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm
line 1796,  line 169.
Malformed UTF-8 character: \xf6\x20\x41\x63 (unexpected non-continuation
byte 0x20, immediately after start byte 0xf6; need 4 bytes, got 1) in
pattern match (m//) at
/gnu/store/w8k9hcigvhzrlrblv8lgqj77sm3833rs-texinfo-6.7/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm
line 3364.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at
/gnu/store/w8k9hcigvhzrlrblv8lgqj77sm3833rs-texinfo-6.7/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm
line 3364.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:83: README] Error 25
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs

Deleting `inverting-intervals.eps'...
Layout output to `inverting-intervals-1.eps'...
Writing inverting-intervals-systems.texi...
Writing inverting-intervals-systems.tex...
Writing inverting-intervals-systems.count...
Success: compilation successfully completed
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/tmp/guix-build-solfege-3.22.2.drv-0/solfege-3.22.2'
make: *** [Makefile:74: genfiles] Error 2
command "make" "-j" "4" failed with status 2

bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive

[Tim Magee via web]

I previously had GNU Guix installed with an encrypted home partition but the 
main partition unencrypted.