tiny-pilot / tiny-pilot/tinypilot
Video corruption in NixOS installer on error
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- Python
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Description
Description
When a nix rebuild fails with an error the entire area of the screenarea of the error gets corrupted and flickers wildly
What's the behavior that you expect?
Normal image transmission without any artifacts or corruptions
What's happening instead?
Brutal flickering in the area of the error and below it
What are the steps to reproduce this behavior?
- Open TinyPilot in any browser
- Go into the official nixos installer in command line mode
- sudo nixos rebuild switch --flake .# with an erroneous system
- See error
Screenshots
Capture hardware
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B0895N9KM5
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked logs and reproduce the failure using the described NixOS installer command and capture hardware. Trace the video capture and error-rendering path to identify why the error area flickers; done means the error displays without corruption or artifacts in the reported scenario.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100