From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: 24335-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24335: Error when invoking usermod while reconfiguring
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:12:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160830181240.GB2595@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8fur25d.fsf@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 01:18:06PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> Leo Famulari (2016-08-30 08:44 +0300) wrote:
>
> > While reconfiguring my GuixSD system from 1062f2451 (gnu: Add stagit),
> > the process fails as show below.
> >
> > When I revert 2d1a2f4af (system: Add 'create-home-directory?' field to
> > <user-account>) and the associated commit cb58b2cd, the reconfigure
> > completes successfully.
>
> This "... create-home-directory? ..." commit is eb56ee027 actually:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=eb56ee027b4c6b5682f69fa885d16e55c4495bd8
>
> > [...]
> > In unknown file:
> > ?: 0 [system* "usermod" "-u" ...]
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure system*:
> > ERROR: Wrong type (expecting string): #t
>
> I think that commit is an ABI-breaking thing. Try to do "make clean-go"
> and remake the guix checkout again.
>
> Specifically, that commit didn't touch (gnu services base) module, so
> 'guix-build-accounts' procedure still produces guixbuilder users
> accounts in an "old" format. It's just my guess though, but "make
> clean-go" should work.
>
> --
> Alex
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-30 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 5:44 bug#24335: Error when invoking usermod while reconfiguring Leo Famulari
2016-08-30 10:18 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-30 15:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-30 18:12 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-30 18:12 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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