On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:13 PM Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 10:56 PM Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 10:40 PM Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:46 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> skribis:
>>>>
>>>> We’re missing a tiny bit.  :-)  Could you run strace with ‘-s 3000’ or
>>>> similar so that it doesn’t truncate it?
>>>>
>>>> (The “strange characters” are Unicode HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah... :)
>>>
>>> Here's a larger chunk of backtrace:
>>>
>>> 19530 read(20, "Backtrace:\n          13 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure
>>> 563a9e2f92a0>)\nIn ice-9/boot-9.scm:\n    718:2 12 (call-with-prompt
>>> (\"prompt\") #<procedure 563a9e3167e0 \342\200\246> \342\200\246)\nIn
>>> ice-9/eval.scm:\n    619:8 11 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user)
>>> 563a9e39a750>)))\nIn ice-9/command-line.scm:\n   181:18 10 (_ #<input:
>>> string 563a9e3a8bd0>)\nIn unknown file:\n           9 (eval (begin
>>> (use-modules (guix) (srfi srfi-34) # #) \342\200\246) #)\nIn
>>> ice-9/eval.scm:\n   721:20  8 (primitive-eval (begin (use-modules (guix)
>>> (srfi \342\200\246) \342\200\246) \342\200\246))\nIn ice-9/psyntax.scm:\n
>>>  1241:36  7 (expand-top-sequence ((begin (use-modules (guix) \342\200\246)
>>> \342\200\246)) \342\200\246)\n  1194:19  6 (parse _ ((\"placeholder\"
>>> placeholder)) ((top) #(# # \342\200\246)) \342\200\246)\n  1233:19  5
>>> (parse _ ((\"placeholder\" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # \342\200\246))
>>> \342\200\246)\n   285:10  4 (parse _ ((\"placeholder\" placeholder)) (()) _
>>> c&e (eval) \342\200\246)\nIn ice-9/boot-9.scm:\n  3389:20  3
>>> (process-use-modules _)\n   222:17  2 (map1 (((guix)) ((srfi srfi-34))
>>> ((rnrs io ports)) (#)))\n  3390:31  1 (_ ((guix)))\n   2809:6  0
>>> (resolve-interface (guix) #:select _ #:hide _ #:prefix _
>>> \342\200\246)\n\nice-9/boot-9.scm:2809:6: In procedure
>>> resolve-interface:\nno code for module (guix)\n", 16384) = 1150
>>>
>>
>> I think I understand part of the problem. It's not guix guile which is
>> invoked on wand but the guile which I have installed under /usr/local. But
>> why is this? guix as well as guile-ssh is installed at wand.
>>
>
> Which guile is it supposed to use? Which version and which "fusion of
> modules"? And how are these supposed to be found on the build machine.
> Looking in the strace, it seems like a bash shell with "guile -c" is
> started without any path information.
>
> (Not sure that I even ask the right questions.)
>

The PATH of the build machine user is:

/home/guix/.guix-profile/bin:/home/guix/.config/guix/current/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin:/opt/thinlinc/bin