GNU bug report logs - #35783
Guile-Parted crashes the installer on i686-linux

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 19:47:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 35783 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 35783 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#35783: Guile-Parted crashes the installer on i686-linux
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 23:22:47 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> On i686-linux, the installer crashes when it reaches the partitioning
> page with a null-pointer exception (or sometimes with a plain SIGSEGV),
> in the call to ‘partition-disk’ in ‘esp-partition?’.  Screenshots
> of two different crashes (null-pointer exception and SIGSEGV) attached.

Reverting 7d567af46b4e10ffafb1d0f76b524f5781460598 fixes the problem, so
I guess this has to do with the fact that the previous partition objects
(those listed in ‘initial-partitions’) are invalidated or something.

Now we need another way to address
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35731>.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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