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On ODROID-N2, writing u-boot to SPI from the TUI printed flashcp output
over the progress gauge. The TUI now sends the stderr of its gauge
pipelines to /var/log/armbian-install.log; the engine still gives board
hooks the caller's terminal (rockchip64 SPI image menu in CLI).

New test in bootconfig.bats; unit suites pass 116/116.

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The installation and bootloader-flashing pipelines check whether INSTALL_LOG can be opened for appending. They use /dev/stderr if the log cannot be opened and redirect pipeline stderr to INSTALL_LOG. A test checks that the mtd, ufs, and emmc bootloader hooks preserve stdout and stderr for the caller and leave INSTALL_LOG empty.

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TUI pipeline errors are logged rather than displayed over the progress gauge, with a stderr fallback if the log cannot be opened. No actionable merge-blocking risk is established.

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: keeping board hook stderr out of the partitioner dialog gauge.
Description check Passed The description directly explains the stderr redirection, the affected ODROID-N2 TUI behavior, CLI behavior, test coverage, and test result.
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Review comments at @tools/modules/system/module_partitioner.sh:
- Line 336: In partitioner_tui(), verify that INSTALL_LOG can be opened for
appending before starting the installation flow; if it cannot, set it to
/dev/stderr so the installation group still runs and its output is captured.
- Line 415: Update the bootloader-write block containing
install_write_bootloader so failure to open INSTALL_LOG does not prevent the
write; open the log before running the command and direct output to standard
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Comment thread tools/modules/system/module_partitioner.sh
The TUI pipes the install and the bootloader write into dialog_gauge and
leaves stderr on the terminal. Board u-boot hooks write to it: odroidn2
and others print "Confirmed flashcp supports --partition ..." and
flashcp errors there, so the text lands on top of the gauge.

Send the stderr of both gauge pipelines to INSTALL_LOG. stdout stays on
the gauge, where it carries the progress, and install_write_bootloader
is unchanged, so CLI runs keep the terminal: the rockchip64 hook checks
[[ -t 1 ]] to offer its SPI image menu.

If the log cannot be opened for appending, both TUI functions fall back
to stderr, so the install or the bootloader write still runs.

Tested on ODROID-N2: the gauge stays clean and the flashcp messages end
up in /var/log/armbian-install.log.

Signed-off-by: Igor Velkov <iav@iav.lv>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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