GNU bug report logs - #58375
Installer does not show what is being downloaded

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>, 58375 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58375: Installer does not show what is being downloaded
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 18:56:35 +0200

Hello!

Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz> skribis:

> Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> writes:
>> I installed Guix on a new drive, so I tried the installer from the latest image. After reviewing the system config, the installer goes to a black screen where guix output is shown. Although I can see messages about substitutes being updated, and how much will be downloaded, all download lines are replaced with a seemingly random number of dots:
>>
>> substitute: mise à jour des substituts depuis «…»... 100.0 %
>> 4.5 Mo seront téléchargés.
>> .
>> ...
>> .
>> .
>> ......
>>
>> Maybe this is related to the translation?
>
> I agree that this does look pretty bad, but this is because we capture
> the guix command output to a log file so that we're able to include it
> in the installer dump if anything goes wrong.  Guix detects it's not
> talking directly to a terminal and so doesn't try to use terminal
> specific escape codes to display the download progress.  I don't know
> how we could improve on that front though, since in general capturing
> the guix command output helps with debugging issues.

This is a duplicate of <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55360>, marked as
important.

I think capturing all the output as-is is overkill; one option I
suggested in the bug report above is to syslog specific events of
interest during ‘guix system init’.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.