From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Dimakakos Dimos <bendersteed@gmail.com>
Cc: 37357@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37357: Guix gc removes next-gtk-webkit input with next installed
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:25:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736h59n6r.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2yxsb08.fsf@gmail.com>
Dimakakos Dimos <bendersteed@gmail.com> writes:
> After running gc and trying to launch next-browser I get:
[…]
> <ERROR> [19:11:30] next base.lisp (initialize-port remote-interface fun24) -
> Couldn't execute "/gnu/store/5hh6qpp4lqa6gy1ghdb4ppvjamgb3mbc-next-gtk-webkit-1.3.1/bin/next-gtk-webkit": No such file or directory
[…]
> Obviously the package should be live and not be picked up by gc, since
> it's an input of a package in a current profile. Any ideas why that
> could happen?
Can you tell us what version of Guix you used to install Next? There
was a short period during which the Next executable was compressed,
which effectively hid references from the garbage collector.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-09 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 16:13 bug#37357: Guix gc removes next-gtk-webkit input with next installed Dimakakos Dimos
2019-09-09 21:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-09-10 7:51 ` Dimakakos Dimos
2019-09-19 13:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-26 16:37 ` bug#37357: Is there a workaround? Konrad Hinsen
2019-09-26 17:45 ` Konrad Hinsen
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