bug#35941: Newt installer failure when wifi name is #f

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> I've tried the installer today and it failed at the wifi selection,
> printing a stack trace which allowed me to investigate.  Since I could
> not save it (shouldn't we dump it to a file by the way?), I've noted
> down the following, roughly:
>
> In /gnu/installer/newt/wifi.scm:
>   204: (run-wifi-page)
>        (filter ...:145 (service)...
>        (#<<service> name: "foo" type: "wifi" path: "wifi_d..." ...)
>   147: (_ #<<service name: #f ...)
>        (string-null? #f)
>
>
> Apparently it fails because a wifi service name is #f.

I believe this is the same bug as
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35620>.

Could you follow-up on the questions I asked there?  That would allow us
to understand exactly why you end up with an empty or #f service name.

Thanks,
Ludo’.