* bug#68905: Boot fails when symlink exists
@ 2024-02-02 17:55 Pierre Neidhardt via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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From: Pierre Neidhardt via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2024-02-02 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 68905
Today my Guix System crashed during the boot process for external
reasons.
Upon restart, booting a system would drop into the REPL right after the
following line:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
making '/var/...' the current system...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
complaining that the symlink already exists.
I checked gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-current-system), and there
is this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; Atomically make SYSTEM current.
(let ((new (string-append %current-system ".new")))
(symlink system new)
(rename-file new %current-system)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
And indeed, there was a dangling /run/current-system.new file on my
disk.
After removing it (from a live USB, didn't know how to do this from the
Guile REPL), the system succeeded to boot.
The fix should be easy: ensure that (symlink system new) overwrites any
potentially existing file.
Cheers!
Pierre
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