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[Guix Info][7.1.5] Should warn user about losing Internet or DNS connection |
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Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:06:35 +0700 |
Hi!
When downloading substitutes via wireless connection, several times I
encountered a case where the host name of hydra cannot be resolved. So, the
"guix system init" fails and suggests the use of "--fallback" option. However,
rather than continuing with "guix system --fallback init", one should actually
try "dhclient -v WIRELESS_INTERFACE_NAME" first and then do "guix system init"
again instead of "guix system --fallback init". My installation process is now
going well with this strategy. Previously, I kept using "--fallback" that
didn't solve the problem due to network connectivity error because using
"--fallback" brought up built errors.
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Re: bug#23910: [Guix Info][7.1.5] Should warn user about losing Internet or DNS connection |
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Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:52:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
Eus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Sorry for replying just now. I did not try to reproduce the bug back at
> that time. So, I took the time yesterday to try to reproduce the bug. And,
> I cannot reproduce the problem after repeating the following rough steps
> two times with the same bootable disk and machine and network (but the
> external connection to the ISP may have changed in the mean time):
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> 1. Format my /dev/sda8
> 2. Swapon my /dev/sda7
> 3. mount my /dev/sda8 to /mnt
> 4. herd start cow-store /mnt
> 5. umount /tmp
> 6. mount --bind /mnt/tmp2 /tmp
> 7. ifconfig, wpa_supplicant, dhclient
> 8. guix pull
> 9. guix system --no-grub --keep-failed init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt
Normally step #8 can be omitted because hydra.gnu.org still has binaries
for the packages 0.11.0 provides.
Step #6 is also redundant with step #4 (‘herd start cow-store’ make /tmp
a bind mount to /mnt/tmp; see gnu/system/install.scm:154.)
> The whole process took just about 100 minutes.
That’s a lot of time.
> So, I cannot reproduce the bug.
Great. Thanks for taking the time to verify!
Ludo’.
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