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bug#38608: enable --fallback for the guix graphical installer
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#38608: enable --fallback for the guix graphical installer |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:28:51 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Brett Gilio <address@hidden> skribis:
> Nathan Dehnel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I can't install guix because I keep getting substitute download errors.
>>
>> It's really punishing having to restart the install process after a
>> download error.
>>
>
> I actually don't know how our installer works that well, so I am going
> to leave the issue of whether to default to `--fallback` is the right
> decision to somebody else.
>
> However, for anybody reading this: does our installer dump logs
> anywhere? That seems like a more useful bit of information so we can
> triage and possibily fix why you are not receiving substitutes.
The “GUI” dumps logs in /tmp upon crashes, but in this case it’s not a
GUI issue, so there’s no log around.
Thanks,
Ludo’.