--- Begin Message ---
Subject: |
[version 1.4.0rc1] Add r8169 to unsupported hardware |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:47:02 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
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
installer-Warn-about-r8169-Ethernet-controller.patch
Description: Text Data
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Subject: |
Re: bug#59782: [version 1.4.0rc1] Add r8169 to unsupported hardware |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:51:16 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Having the installer show a warning here would *not* be appropriate.
These r8169 issues are so rare, I haven’t met one since.
Even though I believe the r8169 Ethernet was at fault, and guix
substitute freezing also had happened to me in the past with it, and
even though Linux-libre reports it as DEBLOBBED on every boot, I am
closing. We don’t warn about sub-par nouveau graphics either.
Regards,
Florian
--- End Message ---