From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Cc: 42161@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42161: Confusing '' error message
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:57:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87365tlkfa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200703015335.728becb2@primarylaptop.localdomain> (Denis Carikli's message of "Fri, 3 Jul 2020 01:53:34 +0200")
Hi,
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> skribis:
> 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.
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. You were right: the root
cause here is that the ‘file-systems’ field does not specify a root file
system.
Could you add one and let me know how it goes?
I’ve done two things to improve the situation:
1. Commit a168c3e4f8d580f70e1c26bcdfc5b8378b2fa42d fixes a
longstanding issues where we’d get useless backtraces like the one
above in such circumstances.
2. Commit d7e9e0bbc9aadec3e1830767a8771bfbe9c43155 changes ‘guix
system’ so that a “missing root file system” error message is
printed in this case.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-14 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-02 4:40 bug#42161: Confusing '' error message Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-07-02 7:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-02 23:53 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-07-14 23:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-01-10 19:26 ` bug#42161: Confusing 'guix system' backtrace when root file system is missing Maxim Cournoyer
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