Calamares does not always write a proper installation log.

benbullard79 commented 2 years ago

OpenMandriva version: Cooker, Rolling, and Rock/4.3 all arches and flavors. Describe the bug: Sometimes the calamares-installation.log in /var/log is only a handful of lines. Steps to reproduce: This is difficult. One would need to do several installs and observe the calamares-installation.log after each installation until you see a failed log. Observed behavior: Sometimes the calamares-installation.log in /var/log is only a handful of lines. I have a 4.3 system installed on 2022-02-06 with such a log but I have seen this sometimes with very recent versions of Cooker and Rolling isos. My installed systems in VirtualBox and on hardware show a mix. Some have the correct logs and some have the truncated/incorrect logs. Expected behavior: Expeted that Calamares produces a log that includes all the output one would see if you run installer from terminal with pkexec calamares -d. That log is normally over 1000 lines. Additional comment: Problem is intermittent and difficult for me to pin down a possible cause. Does not seem related to OMLx version or arch. I have no idea if this is a calamares problem or somewhere else. Logs and screenshots if relevant calamares-installation.log from hw 4.3 system installed 2022-02-06:

calamares-installation.log

omdv-bug-report log from the same system:

omdv-bug-report-20220529141959.log

This is calamares-installation.log from a cooker system on another partition on the same computer. This is an example of the expected log:

calamares-installation.log

As always let me know if I can define the issue better or provide any additional info. Testing any possible fixes will be difficult but I will try to do so.

benbullard79 commented 2 years ago

Bug has been confirmed by another user. I have not found any upstream reports on this issue.

This bug may be major bug, I believe it is.

benbullard79 commented 2 years ago

What I am going to do and what I recommend that all testers do for now is to do all installs like this from terminal:

$ pkexec calamares -d | tee /home/live/calamares-installation-log.txt

and save those logs. This way we might learn something about this problem from the logs.

tpgxyz commented 2 years ago

Hi,

this should be fixed with new calamares-3.2.59 as i enabled preservefiles module whoch does handle the installation logs: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftware/distro-release/blob/master/installer/preservefiles.conf

tpgxyz commented 2 years ago

This should be fixed, please confirm.

10:02:23 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Starting job "Saving files for later ..." ( 34 / 35 ) 
    .. Running ("chown", "root:wheel", "/tmp/calamares-root-xzl08jhl/var/log/Calamares.log") 
    .. Running ("chown", "root:wheel", "/tmp/calamares-root-xzl08jhl/var/log/Calamares-install.json")

benbullard79 commented 2 years ago

Installed on hw from iso # 998 last night using pkexec calamares -d. There is a log. But the user does not have access to the log. Calamares log is owned by root and group wheel. I had to modify that to open it a user or to post the log here. This is the created log:

Calamares.log

I think I need to do more testing using the GUI to install.

benbullard79 commented 2 years ago

OK, I just did a test install using same iso on same hw and using Calamares GUI. Good news is that the install was successful. Bad news is Calamares.log is empty. This is that log.

Calamares.log

tpgxyz commented 2 years ago

@benbullard79 Thanks Ben, does Calamares-install.json is empty also ?

benbullard79 commented 2 years ago

I should have posted both files. So I just installed latest Cooker znver1 iso # 1024 in vbox from the Calamares gui. It has calamares-3.2.59-2.

Here are those two files:

Calamares.log

Calamares-install.json.txt