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bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUI
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Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID |
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Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:40:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> Apparently what happens here is that ‘read-partition-uuid’, called by
> ‘user-partition->file-system’, returns #f, and that value is then passed
> to ‘uuid->string’.
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> There are two ways ‘read-partition-uuid’ can return #f:
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> 1. the partition doesn’t have one of the types listed in
> ‘%partition-uuid-readers’;
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> 2. the partition does not exist or is EIO (see use of ‘ENOENT-safe’ in
> ‘partition-field-reader’).
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> So most likely the problem is #2.
I pushed a change so that ‘read-partition-uuid’ & co. will no longer
swallow ENOENT, so we at least get more accurate error reports:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=09ce4568f2cc1f87c5a5e0aa1643780c39a73088
Ludo’.