On Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:48:26 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, Hi, > If you’re having troubles building your system, I’d try building with > ‘-v3’ (verbose mode) for example, or ‘--on-error=debug’ if the problem > is in your ‘system.scm’ file. Here's with -v3 > # guix system -v3 --no-bootloader init system.scm /srv/distros/guix/ > guile: warning: failed to install locale > Backtrace: > 1 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix") > In guix/ui.scm: > 1949:12 0 (run-guix-command _ . _) > > guix/ui.scm:1949:12: In procedure run-guix-command: > In procedure struct-vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 > (expecting struct): #f And with -v3 and --on-error=debug: > # guix system --on-error=debug -v3 --no-bootloader init system.scm > /srv/distros/guix/ guile: warning: failed to install locale > Backtrace: > 1 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix") > In guix/ui.scm: > 1949:12 0 (run-guix-command _ . _) > > guix/ui.scm:1949:12: In procedure run-guix-command: > In procedure struct-vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 > (expecting struct): #f In both cases it doesn't point to my system.scm, so I'm trying to start suspecting that the issue is somewhere else. Though you need to keep in mind that I just read the Scheme crashcourse from the GuiX cookbook days ago, so I'm really far from being fluent in Scheme. > > so I'm probably doing something wrong here as I'm probably not > > supposed to abuse guix system init to create chroots for lxc. > > I’m not familiar with lxc, but it looks like it should work. In a nutshell I'm trying to install GuiX: - without a bootloader - in a directory that isn't the root of a filesystem I've tried also on /mnt which is backed by a partition: > /dev/sdb4 on /mnt type ext4 (rw,relatime) And again I've the same error: > guix system --on-error=debug -v3 --no-bootloader init system.scm > /mnt/ guile: warning: failed to install locale > Backtrace: > 1 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix") > In guix/ui.scm: > 1949:12 0 (run-guix-command _ . _) > > guix/ui.scm:1949:12: In procedure run-guix-command: > In procedure struct-vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 > (expecting struct): #f Is that part of my system.scm really correct: > (file-systems %base-file-systems) I hope that I'm not polluting bugreports for issues that I'm responsible of, but I don't have enough knowledge to know that in advance, and I was advised to bugreport on #guix IRC channel. Denis.