Anyone want a sysinst task? (Was: pkgin fails to install in the install kernel)

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

Hmm.. there are a *lot* of run_program() calls in sysinst which do not
check the return value.

Would be a very useful task for someone to run through them all and add checks

Anyone interested? :)


On 16 November 2014 12:49, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> It was using more than 640M of VM?
>
> While I agree not having a failure reported as success would be the
> top priority, the thought that it was using that much VM during
> install is... scary.
>
> What arch is this on? i386 has a set_swap() in sysinst to use
> swapspace if less than 32M of ram, but amd64 does not... I suspect
> that check should be made MI...
>
>
> On 15 November 2014 16:15, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> I've attached 3 screenshots. During each attempt, I was installing in a
>> virtual machine. The first (that I didn't document) was a Linux KVM. This
>> time was on VMWare Fusion (with screenshots). Each time I set it up with 128
>> megs of memory, 512 megs of swap, and a 15 gig disk.
>>
>> The concern is not necessarily that the pkgin config process failed, it's
>> that it was marked as completed afterward.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> I just had something happen that I didn't capture but I will try to at
>>> some point.
>>>
>>> This is when trying to install pkgin using the install kernel just after
>>> the full install of sets is finished.
>>>
>>> During the "building database" phase, it issued a message something like
>>> "killed, ran out of swap".
>>>
>>> But the process ended and returned to the menu. The process was marked as
>>> "DONE".
>>>
>>> Seems like it should be marked failed if the process fails?
>>>
>>> I searched a bit and I see a few PRs but nothing specific to pkgin failing
>>> and then getting marked "DONE". Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>>