Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:

[...]

>        2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (???herd
>           restart term-tty1??? fixes it, so to speak).
>
> I think this is because glibc-locales is not part of the installer image.  
> Unfortunately
> if we include it, then it adds 50% to the size.  We might have to think about 
> this :(

Maybe it’s not necessary: we can set ‘LANGUAGE’ to a language that does
not necessarily have a corresponding locale, like “eo”.

>        3. ???Setup the network??? (should be ???Set up????) shows ???Command 
> failed (No
>           such device???) for a second, and then apparently the installer
>           crashes and term-tty1 is restarted.
>
> Can you send me the results of running "ip -o link" (as root) on the system 
> which 
> did this?

That was in QEMU without networking:

  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-64-linux -m 512

“ip -o link” shows lo and ens3, both down.

BTW (guix build syscalls) has procedures to deal with network interfaces
that might be useful here.

Thanks!

Ludo’.