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Subject: bug#36611: Disappearing profile?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:42:48 +0200 (CEST)
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>, 36611@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello Ludovic,

> What do you mean by =E2=80=9Cmy profile disappeared once again=E2=80=9D? =
 Is the
> ~/.guix-profile symlink still around?  What does:
>=20
>  readlink -f ~/.guix-profile
>=20
> show?
>=20

.guix-profile points to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/matthieu/guix-profile a=
s it should. But the packages
that I had installed, like file or the urxvt command from rxvt-unicode, are=
 no longer in my path.=20
The last time this happened, my manifest file was still working, but guix p=
ackage -I told that I had no installed package.


> Regarding the =E2=80=9Cunsupported manifest format=E2=80=9D error: what=
=E2=80=99s the content of
> ~/.guix-profile/manifest?  (You previously posted the contents of
> ~/.config/guix/current/manifest, but it=E2=80=99s not relevant here.)

It exists, but is entirely empty (has size 0)

>=20
> In general profiles cannot =E2=80=9Cdisappear=E2=80=9D.  A potential issu=
e one may
> encounter is that, if you running several =E2=80=9Cguix install=E2=80=9D =
or =E2=80=9Cguix
> package=E2=80=9D commands simultaneously, one of them will =E2=80=9Cwin=
=E2=80=9D, meaning that
> work done by the other one is discarded.  However, that cannot lead to
> the =E2=80=9Cunsupported manifest format=E2=80=9D error.
>=20
> Did you happen to run several such commands in parallel?

Yes, I believe I did. I did not know this would cause such a mess!

Thanks,
Matthieu