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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#24335: Error when invoking usermod while reconfiguring
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:12:40 -0400
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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