Installer fails on Fedora 39

[djay7777]

After running the installer, nothing gets written into the home directory.

After running the installer (daedalus-5.4.0-67194-mainnet-8dc751094-x86_64-linux.bin)

cardano2@zen3:~$ ls -la ~/.local
ls: cannot access '/home2/cardano2/.local': No such file or directory

cardano2@zen3:~$ ls -la /tmp/nixuJgF8k/home2/cardano2/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x. 5 cardano2 cardano2 4096 Jul 12 00:56 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 cardano2 cardano2 4096 Jul 12 00:55 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 3 cardano2 cardano2 4096 Jul 12 00:56 .daedalus
drwxr-xr-x. 4 cardano2 cardano2 4096 Jul 12 00:56 .local
drwxr-xr-x. 2 cardano2 cardano2 4096 Jul 12 00:56 .nix-defexpr

[michalrus]

Could you show me the installation log? I.e.

❯ chmod +x daedalus-5.4.0-67194-mainnet-8dc751094-x86_64-linux.bin

And then what gets written to the screen after you run the installer from the terminal:

❯ ./daedalus-5.4.0-67194-mainnet-8dc751094-x86_64-linux.bin

[djay7777]

Sorry I forgot to attach the output from running the installer. Everything ends up inside the tmpdir.
daedalus.txt

[michalrus]

Thanks! You can see in the log that the installer is creating this directory:

mkdir: created directory '/home2/cardano2/.local/share/Daedalus/mainnet'

What is /home2/? It feels a bit non-standard, are you sure it's correct?

Then I see you're trying to list directory .local in your current directory which is ~ according to your shell or $HOME, or your home directory.

The only reason for this that I see is your $HOME directory not being /home2/cardano2?

Can you show me the output of:

❯ echo $HOME

And of pwd (the current directory) right before you try to ls .local:

❯ pwd

And also let's check if it's in the location that the installer deems your home:

❯ ls /home2/cardano2/.local/share/Daedalus/mainnet

[michalrus]

Uh-oh, wait, I re-read your original issue, so you said that everything ends up in /tmp/nixuJgF8k/home2/cardano2/, hmmmm.

Let me look at the code of the installer ⏳

[michalrus]

Okay, I get it. It's because of this line:

    nixUserChrootFlags = "-c -m /home:/home -p HOME";

The installer is being run from a chroot, where only /home is mounted as /home. We don’t know about /home2. This is rather silly, we should've mounted $HOME instead, sorry.

There have never been any reports about this, I'm assuming because almost no users have their $HOME under somewhere else than /home. But it's a good test case, thanks for finding it. :)

Solution 1 – wait for 5.5.0

We're currently getting rid of the chroot, as it's problematic on the newest Ubuntu. The next release will be a simple installer which unpacks a completely portable directory which you can move to– and run from anywhere.

Solution 2 – try the new installer today

You can download the installer from PR #3207 – from the Artifacts tab in the Linux section: https://buildkite.com/input-output-hk/daedalus/builds/23160

Solution 3 – rename /home2 back to /home

Or maybe symlink? I don’t know your exact setup.

[djay7777]

Ah thanks, i didn't notice the hard-coded /home there. The new installer works well!

cardano2@zen3:~$ ./daedalus-5.4.0-68037-mainnet-054405c27-x86_64-linux.bin 
STATUS Verifying SHA-256 checksum...
PROG 1/5
STATUS Cleaning up already installed version(s)...
PROG 2/5
./daedalus-5.4.0-68037-mainnet-054405c27-x86_64-linux.bin: line 57: type: pv: not found
Note: you don't have `pv' installed, so we can't show progress
STATUS Unpacking...
PROG 3/5
STATUS Setting up a .desktop entry...
PROG 4/5
STATUS Done
PROG 5/5

Installed successfully!

Now, either:
  1. In a terminal, run ~/.daedalus/mainnet/bin/daedalus
  2. Or select Start -> Daedalus mainnet.

[michalrus]

Happy to hear this :) Thanks for helping us test!