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>

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35783 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35783: Guile-Parted crashes the installer on i686-linux
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 16:24:26 +0200

Hey Ludo,

> Longer-term it would be good to audit Guile-Parted: it probably
> shouldn’t be possible for Guile-Parted to refer to “defunct” Parted
> objects.

Yup, with hindsight I realize that keeping Guile-Parted so low-level was
a mistake. With a few more abstractions (gnu installer parted) could be
less complicated.

Anyway, thanks for pushing this patch.

Mathieu
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