From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luther Thompson Subject: bug#35175: Cannot reconfigure Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 07:02:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20190407070238.34524b9d@gmail.com> References: <20190406172632.4b71b37b@gmail.com> <20190406153348.411df268@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hD5Zr-0002eH-Si for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 07:03:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hD5Zq-0003pY-Pk for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 07:03:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34285) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hD5Zm-0003nU-Ui for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 07:03:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hD5Zm-0006B3-JV for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 07:03:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: znavko@disroot.org Cc: 35175@debbugs.gnu.org On Sun, 07 Apr 2019 08:15:53 +0000 znavko@disroot.org wrote: > I think your guix files are old but your config needs new version. > Have you performed `guix pull && guix package -u` first? I run `sudo guix pull` every day that I reconfigure, and it works. I don't think it makes sense to run `guix package -u` as root, because reconfiguring takes care of all that. Root should not need any packages that aren't in the OS configuration. > It helped me: just boot with another (may be the oldest) kernel and > make updates with `guix pull && guix package -u` And then try again. I'm hoping I won't have to use an older system generation or an older Guix commit, because as long as `sudo guix pull` works, I should be able to reconfigure as soon as someone fixes this bug (assuming my backtrace is enough for someone to locate the bug). > If not, post `guix describe` if it will be renewed. Current output of `sudo guix describe`: guix 32c055f repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 32c055fd32059cbe0ab6f94eb3ef3a8c7e49dc92 So there's been further commits since I first encountered the problem. Other than that, there's not much info here. For what it's worth, I'm able to update my user profile without any issue. Luther