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

2021-04-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Tim Magee skribis: > 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? _) >   16

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

2020-12-21 Thread Tim Magee via web
I previously had GNU Guix installed with an encrypted home partition but the main partition unencrypted.

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

2020-12-01 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Tim, > 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. Nice you found a work-arou

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

2020-11-29 Thread andi
I did run into a similar issue and it turned out to be me selecting /dev/sr0 in the device selection dialog instead of the actual VM disk.

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

2020-11-28 Thread 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 a

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

2020-11-27 Thread 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

2020-11-26 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, Thanks for the bug report and sorry for the inconvenience. > In gnu/system/uuid.scm: > 317:2 18 (uuid->string . _) It looks like the UUID extraction of an "ext4" partition failed. Did you use automatic or manual partitioning? Thanks, Mathieu

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

2020-11-25 Thread 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: -