I got this error when reconfiguring with a recent revision of Guix. /builder for `/gnu/store/kbhl4rk6p0z4jbimlqj57vj3dhyjgv4x-etc.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/kbhl4rk6p0z4jbimlqj57vj3dhyjgv4x-etc.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/kb/hl4rk6p0z4jbimlqj57vj3dhyjgv4x-etc.drv.bz2'. building /gnu/store/59bd67s06inr5vzyxc70yk6garj2aciz-linux-modules.drv... cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/n45vq7jbhn5qz24qlgv6a6ginarqs433-system.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix system: error: build of `/gnu/store/n45vq7jbhn5qz24qlgv6a6ginarqs433-system.drv' failed chris@guix-hetzner-1 ~$ bzcat /var/log/guix/drvs/kb/hl4rk6p0z4jbimlqj57vj3dhyjgv4x-etc.drv.bz2 Backtrace: 1 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/g4q88pmwr1vy54qpnkz878k3n7f?") 0 (symlink "/gnu/store/939n705vmkn8613b8gjc10llvsr5jcwc-?" ?) ERROR: In procedure symlink: In procedure symlink: File exists Moving the rottlog-configuration to modify-services for %base-services resolved this I believe, but that was a guess based on memory. Even if the system definition is invalid, I don't think here should be where it fails.