bug#60104: Hiccups installing GNU Guix 1.4.0rc2 system

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"J. Sims" <jtsims@protonmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> What’s crypttab? At which point exactly does this screen appears:
>> before GRUB, after GRUB, once the Linux kernel has booted?
>
> crypttab is some part of the LUKS encryption stuff. This appears to be a 
> manpage for it: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/crypttab.5.html

Oh OK; Guix system doesn’t use that file.

> The screen appears before GRUB.
>
> I forgot to mention that the UUID of the partition it was looking for did not 
> exist on-disk after completing the Guix installation process. Given the above 
> manpage, I assume this means the crypttab file used in the encryption process 
> wasn't fully replaced. Perhaps the file in question is appended to with Guix 
> data rather than overwritten? Or perhaps it's not used at all for the way 
> Guix does encryption and just gets left behind?

‘guix system init’ and related commands error out if the config
specifies a file system UUID, a LUKS UUID, etc. that do not correspond
to an existing thing.  So it’s unlikely that you managed to install Guix
System with a wrong UUID; likewise, the graphical installer is unlikely
to generate a config file with an incorrect UUID.

So the problem may be elsewhere.

>> Normally the installer will rewrite the partition table, unless (I
>> think) you choose to keep things unchanged.
>
> Interesting... I did the full-disk guided installation method, so that should 
> have done the trick, then.
>
> This reminds me, I noticed that it didn't rewrite specifically the boot 
> partition. When it showed the partition scheme at the end of the partitioning 
> stage, it only showed it changing nvme0np2 (and nvme0np3 with encryption 
> disabled - it only created swap with encryption disabled), while the boot was 
> nvme0np1. After wiping the table, it showed all three.

OK.

I’m afraid I’m not sure what happened.  :-/

If you grab more details from your investigations, please share them.

Thanks for reporting the issue!

Ludo’.