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Installer: null pointer exception during partitioning

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juan <r5jm <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: bug#36402: installation error
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:25:35 +0200

Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> I think we should audit and adjust Guile-Parted in that spirit.  WDYT?
>
> Yes, it seems like the right thing to do. I'll try to apply those
> changes to Guile-Parted next week. However, as we cannot reproduce those
> null-pointer issues, we won't be sure if we fixed them for sure.

Perhaps we can reproduce them by adding a bunch of calls to ‘gc’ in the
code here and there.  That’s often a good way to stress-test memory
management.

> In the meantime, and completely unrelated, I created a new
> wip-cross-system branch to fix most of the cross-compilation issues
> preventing from cross-building a Guix System.

Neat!  Consider opening a new issue for this.  :-)

Thank you,
Ludo’.

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