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authorMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2020-08-13 14:16:12 +0200
committerMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2020-09-02 17:05:23 +0200
commit8ce6f4dc2879919c12bc76a2f4b01200af97e019 (patch)
treebcdfea85d25af8ae24622310a035688ac8257dcc /gnu/installer/newt
parent5316dfc0f125b658e4a2acf7f00f49501663d943 (diff)
installer: Run the installation inside a container.
When the store overlay is mounted, other processes such as kmscon, udev and guix-daemon may open files from the store, preventing the underlying install support from being umounted. See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html. To avoid this situation, mount the store overlay inside a container, and run the installation from within that container. * gnu/build/shepherd.scm (fork+exec-command/container): New procedure. * gnu/services/base.scm (guix-shepherd-service): Support an optional PID argument passed to the "start" method. If that argument is passed, ensure that guix-daemon enters the given PID MNT namespace by using fork+exec-command/container procedure. * gnu/installer/final.scm (umount-cow-store): Remove it, (install-system): run the installation from within a container. * gnu/installer/newt/final.scm (run-install-shell): Remove the display hack.
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diff --git a/gnu/installer/newt/final.scm b/gnu/installer/newt/final.scm
index fa8d6fea71..89684c4d8a 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/newt/final.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/newt/final.scm
@@ -102,13 +102,6 @@ a specific step, or restart the installer."))
#:key (users '()))
(clear-screen)
(newt-suspend)
- ;; XXX: Force loading 'bold' font files before mouting the
- ;; cow-store. Otherwise, if the file is loaded by kmscon after the cow-store
- ;; in mounted, it will be necessary to kill kmscon to umount to cow-store.
- (display
- (colorize-string
- (format #f (G_ "Installing Guix System ...~%"))
- (color BOLD)))
(let ((install-ok? (install-system locale #:users users)))
(newt-resume)
install-ok?))