GNU bug report logs - #59782
[version 1.4.0rc1] Add r8169 to unsupported hardware

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 17:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [version 1.4.0rc1] Add r8169 to unsupported hardware
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:47:02 +0100

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Installation (guix substitute) sometimes gets stuck on my Beebox mini
PC with r8169 Ethernet controller.

For the x86_64 graphical installer, I selected everything.
After it had downloaded plenty of other substitutes, installation
printed this and got stuck:

substitute: Liste der Substitute von „https://ci.guix.gnu.org“ wird aktualisiert … 100.0%
22,2 MB werden heruntergeladen
  cairo-1.16.0-doc  135KiB             616KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%

I waited 10 minutes.  Booting the installer image again, it does not
again get stuck.  Installation was successful now.  I propose this
patch, but will retry some more if installation really never freezes
with USB Ethernet.

IIRC I had had similar problems with this Ethernet socket in the past.

Note: I still need to test the patch.

Regards,
Florian


[installer-Warn-about-r8169-Ethernet-controller.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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Notification sent to "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>:
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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: 59782-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59782: [version 1.4.0rc1] Add r8169 to unsupported hardware
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:51:16 +0100

Having the installer show a warning here would *not* be appropriate.

These r8169 issues are so rare, I haven’t met one since.

Even though I believe the r8169 Ethernet was at fault, and guix
substitute freezing also had happened to me in the past with it, and
even though Linux-libre reports it as DEBLOBBED on every boot, I am
closing.  We don’t warn about sub-par nouveau graphics either.

Regards,
Florian
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:24:07 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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