From: "Xavier Montillet" <xavierm02@xavierm02.fr>
To: 36865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36865: Guix gc breaks grub
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:03:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37594eea-2366-4135-bbd5-b6d582cb6b01@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
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*Symptoms*
After running guix gc, and rebooting, I got the following errors (which stay something like half a second on the screen):
error: no such device: /gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2
error: file `/gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2' not found.
error: no suitable video mode found.
error: no video mode activated.
I then get to the grub menu where I can pick which version of Guix I want to boot on, but all of them lead to getting stuck on the following text (with nothing moving after that for at least several minutes):
error: no suitable video mode found.
Booting in blind mod
*Fix
*
Fortunately nckx was on IRC and saved me by telling me to press C to get the grub command line when I got to the grub menu and run setup_gfxterm.
Running guix system reconfigure config.scm removed the need for setup_gfxterm for subsequent boots.
*Cause*
guix gc thinks that grub (and a lot of other stuff that it shouldn't think is dead) is dead, as shown by the following commands (given by nckx):
$ grep unicode /boot/grub/grub.cfg
search --file --set /gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2
if loadfont /gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2; then
$ guix gc --list-dead | grep 0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797
finding garbage collector roots...
determining live/dead paths...
/gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04
I was also able to reproduce the bug by running guix gc and rebooting again.
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next reply other threads:[~2019-07-30 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 22:03 Xavier Montillet [this message]
2019-07-31 9:21 ` bug#36865: Guix gc breaks grub Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-31 21:05 ` Xavier Montillet
2019-07-31 21:25 ` Xavier Montillet
2019-08-23 12:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-08-23 22:53 ` Xavier Montillet
2019-08-24 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-08-24 15:07 ` Xavier Montillet
2019-08-24 17:42 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-08-26 8:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
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