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[Installer] ‘guix system init’ displays dots instead of progress bars

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#55360: closed (Re: bug#58375: Installer does not show what is
 being downloaded)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:41:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#55360: [Installer] ‘guix system init’ displays dots instead of progress bars

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, 55360-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 58375-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58375: Installer does not show what is being downloaded
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:40:08 +0200

Hey,

Thanks for having a look!

> I haven’t actually tested the patch but it LGTM.  One thing to check is
> whether ‘terminal-window-size’ returns something sensible for the
> pseudo-terminal; it could be that we need an extra ioctl so the
> pseudo-terminal has the same size as the actual terminal.

Well it returns 0 for all fields, but I tested on several screen sizes
and everything seems fine so I went ahead.

While testing I noticed two new issues though:

1. When the disk is GPT partitionned there is no confirmation page in
  "run-label-page". Something I missed in #57232.

2. When there is an exception in run-external-command-with-handler/tty
    for instance, the backtrace page is displayed in the PTY and the
    keyboard shortcuts do not work anymore.

I'll address point 1 shortly but could use some advice for point 2.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [Installer] ‘guix system init’ displays dots instead of progress bars
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 11:23:42 +0200

Hi!

I’ve used an installer built from this commit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Generation 214	May 02 2022 21:44:14	(current)
  guix 6b588da
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 6b588da368c77cde82ea2f22ca315116228777ad
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

During installation, ‘guix system init’ displays dots instead of
progress bars for downloads and such.

This suggests that ‘display-download-progress’ gets #:tty? #f.  This may
be a side effect of running it in a pipe in
‘run-external-command-with-handler’.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

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