From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 23881-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Kooda <kooda@upyum.com>
Subject: bug#23881: System building failure
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 05:07:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg5j4xmc.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tx2zwz1.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:29:06 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Kooda <kooda@upyum.com> skribis:
>
>> Running `guix system build /etc/config.scm` fails with the following error:
>>
>> Backtrace:
[...]
>> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>> 404: 1 [#<procedure 7a37d50 at guix/scripts/system.scm:390:4 ()>]
>> In unknown file:
>> ?: 0 [string-append "--root=" ...]
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure string-append:
>> ERROR: In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #vu8(160 142 87 186 98 117 78 34 144 229 29 155 52 174 54 61)
Fixed by commit c52bf877e9352cd9f29afb13fd4f7d39ed38f1a0. I'm closing
this bug, but please re-open it if you believe there's still a problem.
> I cannot reproduce it with current master.
It only happens when one of the *previous* system generations specified
the root fs by UUID. I guess this was not the case in your tests.
> Unless I’m mistaken, the problem you report was fixed in
> f453f637d5410f4d1e0b3787caa8d34b9b72d7d8 in January.
It turns out there was another place that needed fixing:
'previous-grub-entries' in (guix scripts system). When the root device
of an older generation is specified by UUID, the root device stored in
${system}/parameters is a bytevector, and 'boot-parameters-root-device'
returns a bytevector. 'system->grub-entry' passes this bytevector to
'string-append' and that's what's happening in the backtrace above.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-20 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-01 9:20 bug#23881: System building failure Kooda
2016-07-15 16:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-20 9:07 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-08-21 15:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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