I tried re-enabling verbose debugging in the following script: guix gc guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9600 --verbosity=2 -e '(@ (gnu system install) installation-os)' and got the attached log. Note the following near the end: loading '/gnu/store/sy8cllslzndsm5wg76xhj44acxmsbyyg-linux-vm- loader'... environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/ql5vzaj81wvcrpvp26s40iprw8dkar9m-qemu-minimal- 3.1.0/bin:/gnu/store/nrdc0di2v294y9ygiqdxw6sxkziym7mi-parted- 3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/hlx65zy9dddvzfzna59830ba73sny9yr-e2fsprogs- 1.45.2/bin:/gnu/store/hlx65zy9dddvzfzna59830ba73sny9yr-e2fsprogs- 1.45.2/sbin:/gnu/store/sxr2q3rcqk48lrpckazzlncp99k8bkp4-dosfstools- 4.1/sbin:/gnu/store/lmfddplnplxd03bcqv3w9pynbnr1fp8k-sed- 4.5/bin:/gnu/store/02k245xy33cvcnr8vm3lagm9zmb1s2wa-grep- 3.1/bin:/gnu/store/5s2nib1lrd2101bbrivcl17kjx1mspw6-coreutils- 8.30/bin:/gnu/store/fd621k6fmdnr1yiw0lbvw5spqaa169j3-findutils- 4.6.0/bin:/gnu/store/l67sib1ld0fgyf0f4vrzyxnmn4yvimvb-gawk-4.2.1/bin' [ 2.090988] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready creating partition table with 2 partitions (1786.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)... Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Backtrace: 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/x19zk71zj8mh9i5mbhy4i1ml6vi���@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 "@ build-log 32326 1 )@ build-log 32326 1 @ build-log 32326 1 In ./gnu/build/vm.scm: 563:4 3 (initialize-hard-disk "/dev/vda" #:bootloader-package _ ���@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 )@ build-log 32326 1 @ build-log 32326 1 In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 640:9 2 (for-each # #) In ./gnu/build/vm.scm: 329:3 1 (initialize-partition #< device: "/dev/vda1"���@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 >@ build-log 32326 1 )@ build-log 32326 1 @ build-log 32326 1 In unknown file: 0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A" ("Unsupported file syst���@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 "@ build-log 32326 1 )@ build-log 32326 1 @ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 �@ build-log 32326 1 )@ build-log 32326 1 @ build-log 32326 1 ERROR: In procedure scm-error: Unsupported file system. [ 70.721155] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 [ 70.722153] CPU: 2 PID: 168 Comm: init Not tainted 5.2.10-gnu #1 [ 70.722933] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 70.724324] Call Trace: [ 70.724654] dump_stack+0x63/0x85 [ 70.725085] panic+0xfe/0x2d4 [ 70.725461] do_exit+0xb9d/0xba0 [ 70.725848] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 [ 70.726251] do_group_exit+0x43/0xb0 [ 70.726682] get_signal+0x14f/0x830 [ 70.727089] ? new_sync_read+0x122/0x1b0 [ 70.727546] do_signal+0x34/0x6d0 [ 70.727933] ? __vfs_read+0x29/0x40 [ 70.728341] ? fput+0x13/0x20 [ 70.728690] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x7c/0xf0 [ 70.729191] do_syscall_64+0x118/0x130 [ 70.729631] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 70.730216] RIP: 0033:0x4bac5c [ 70.730670] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 70.731085] RSP: 002b:00007f251e8323b0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [ 70.732018] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 0000000000000005 RCX: 00000000004bac5c [ 70.732942] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007f251e832880 RDI: 0000000000000005 [ 70.733801] RBP: 00007f251e832880 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000652030 [ 70.734623] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 70.735434] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 000000000000000a [ 70.736326] Kernel Offset: 0x11000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff) [ 70.737555] Rebooting in 1 seconds.. file-size: /gnu/store/kw357rqfm7kw4rhx1sbakw3jc4zpi6gy-nss-certs- 3.45/etc/ssl/certs/NetLock_Arany_=Class_Gold=_F??tan??s??tv??ny:2.6.73. 65.44.228.0.16.pem: No such file or directory file-size: /gnu/store/vysii5zxdaxiz4pmb468rpn7i4x08qga- profile/etc/ssl/certs/NetLock_Arany_=Class_Gold=_F??tan??s??tv??ny:2.6. 73.65.44.228.0.16.pem: No such file or directory Am I really the only one who has this issue? Could it be related to something in my os configuration or in my local profile? -- -Jesse