From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
Cc: 29662@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29662: 'guix gc' as user makes system unbootable
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:54:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877etkwedd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <844859f2-692e-f2b8-a7c4-bd6d72541fae@uni-bremen.de> (Martin Castillo's message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2017 23:23:37 +0100")
Hi Martin,
Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de> skribis:
> I had a similar situation today. guix gc removed the grub background png
> from the store. the one, that was used by /boot/grub/grub.cfg. the boot
> menu then had a black and blue background. rebuilding the configuration
> refetched the background image, but guix gc removed it again.
Normally the current ‘grub.cfg’ is a GC root, which prevents the
background image and other items from being deleted:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ls -l /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 Dec 7 23:21 /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg -> /gnu/store/2bnr3z8q0rpvdc9zrshhyq4znx7jpzq6-grub.cfg
$ guix gc --references /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg
/gnu/store/i3l4cv1mz30l4jafbghmbgmafc0xb38h-grub-image.png
/gnu/store/j5x3dfappv9fdp7h46kgm8wxjbcqv5r6-system
/gnu/store/qkhhqqkr0lkczwqwbp95gx4s8v0pjj41-raw-initrd
/gnu/store/xqfpwxbghvi3h85pfji6kdzw7db2sgxz-grub-2.02
/gnu/store/zi4awdcvrlj0fp74yb0y4ngah4qmcri0-linux-libre-4.14.4
$ sudo diff /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg
$ echo $?
0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Could you check if this is the case on your machine?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-18 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 17:21 bug#29662: 'guix gc' as user makes system unbootable Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-11 21:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-11 21:26 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-11 21:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-11 22:03 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-20 14:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-21 21:06 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-17 22:23 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-18 9:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-12-18 14:18 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-18 14:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-18 14:46 ` Martin Castillo
2018-01-08 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-08 18:37 ` Martin Castillo
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