From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Cc: 42161@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42161: Confusing '' error message
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:48:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9j6tl11.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200702064045.13d48e76@primarylaptop.localdomain> (Denis Carikli's message of "Thu, 2 Jul 2020 06:40:45 +0200")
Hello,
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> skribis:
> When doing guix system system.scm /path/to/empty/directory, I have the
> following error message:
>
>> # guix system --verbosity=99 --debug=99 --no-bootloader init
>> system.scm /srv/distros/guix/ guile: warning: failed to install locale
>> acquiring global GC lock `/var/guix/gc.lock'
>> acquiring read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/14408'
>> acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/14408'
> [...]
>> acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/14408'
>> downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/14408'
>> 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
Ah, I think it’s a longstanding bug having to do with ‘--debug’ for
levels greater than 4 or something.
In general, I recommend not using ‘--debug’: it’s rarely of any use,
even for someone working on Guix (but I reckon it’s logical to give it a
try when you’re trying to debug something!). Perhaps we should just
rename it to ‘--daemon-debug’ or something.
If you’re having troubles building your system, I’d try building with
‘-v3’ (verbose mode) for example, or ‘--on-error=debug’ if the problem
is in your ‘system.scm’ file.
> so I'm probably doing something wrong here as I'm probably not supposed
> to abuse guix system init to create chroots for lxc.
I’m not familiar with lxc, but it looks like it should work.
HTH!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-02 7:49 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 [this message]
2020-07-02 23:53 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-07-14 23:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-10 19:26 ` bug#42161: Confusing 'guix system' backtrace when root file system is missing Maxim Cournoyer
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