I've had the following issue a few times now, it seems that somehow, the info-dir builder can be incorrectly generated, without the usual module import stuff. The most recent time this occurred, I worked around this by finding the guix package in the store which I thought was being used at the time, and explicitly garbage collected it (guix gc -d ...). I then rebuilt it, and this seemed to work around the problem. I was using the same guix package, pinned to an revision in a git repository. The builder starts with: (begin (use-modules (guix build utils) This is the error which you get: The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/8qi10kwz4ghabdj5p7s252z11snvhhgf-profile.drv /gnu/store/0jxiph2hvmvakcj6gkz9d00a8ncma903-info-dir.drv Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 160: 18 [catch #t # ...] In unknown file: ?: 17 [apply-smob/1 #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 66: 16 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 432: 15 [eval # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 2412: 14 [save-module-excursion #] 4089: 13 [#] 1734: 12 [%start-stack load-stack #] 1739: 11 [#] In unknown file: ?: 10 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/9ywpf5jc12svv04gvbx96j5z1kpllwn4-info-dir-builder"] In ice-9/eval.scm: 505: 9 [# (begin # # # ...)] In ice-9/psyntax.scm: 1107: 8 [expand-top-sequence ((begin # # # ...)) () ((top)) ...] 990: 7 [scan ((begin (use-modules # # ...) (define # #) ...)) () ...] 990: 6 [scan ((use-modules # # ...) (define # #) (define # #) ...) () ...] 279: 5 [scan ((# #) #(syntax-object *unspecified* # #)) () (()) ...] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 3622: 4 [process-use-modules ((#) (#) (#) (#))] 712: 3 [map # (# # # #)] 3623: 2 [# (#)] 2903: 1 [resolve-interface (guix build utils) #:select ...] In unknown file: ?: 0 [scm-error misc-error #f ...] ERROR: In procedure scm-error: ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils) builder for `/gnu/store/0jxiph2hvmvakcj6gkz9d00a8ncma903-info-dir.drv' failed with exit code 1