From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 42161-done@debbugs.gnu.org,
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Subject: bug#42161: Confusing 'guix system' backtrace when root file system is missing
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:26:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z4461b6.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87365tlkfa.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:57:13 +0200")
Hello Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
It seems you've addressed the problem thoroughly, thank you!
Closing,
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 19:28 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
2021-01-10 19:26 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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