Yesterday, I ran updates with `guix pull && guix package -u`. My laptop warked all night long. But this morning, I've discovered the update process stops without life on this step: $ guix pull && guix package -u ... downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/zqfbh4whwrzzhqa811i43dggyqh2lmwx-libevent-2.1.8... libevent-2.1.8 787KiB 787KiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% building /gnu/store/9y4j59sbxg9igj774q8r04vz31c5clrc-bitcoin-core-0.17.1.drv... substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0% I think the Internet connection was the reason. I stopped guix process and tryed to delete bitcoin-core, but this was not going again: $ guix package -r bitcoin-core The following package will be removed: bitcoin-core 0.17.1 /gnu/store/3gi4m4c2x1hybxlxnh5ll7s474mzz0lj-bitcoin-core-0.17.1 ^C^C After that I typed remove fluidsynth in other terminal and the process was not going again: $ guix package -r fluidsynth The following package will be removed: fluidsynth 2.0.4 /gnu/store/6zpn2p85412dalq7bpfz6sv89pg0hfsp-fluidsynth-2.0.4 ^C So, there I reconnect to Internet and restart guix-daemon with `# herd restart guix-daemon`, and everything goes fine. I think it is a bug, cause guix-daemon did not delete packages. Some blocks present there when Internet goes down.