From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pronaip Subject: bug#35908: guix describe: error: failed to determine origin (and possibly failed upgrades) Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 21:39:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87pno5d8mf.fsf@devup.no> Reply-To: Pronaip Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hV0s9-0004RP-Em for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 17:40:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hV0s6-0003mt-DU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 17:40:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38447) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hV0s6-0003mc-1s for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 17:40:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hV0s5-0006G2-T8 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 17:40:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87pno5d8mf.fsf@devup.no> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Marius Bakke Cc: "35908@debbugs.gnu.org" <35908@debbugs.gnu.org> =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 Original Me= ssage =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 On Sunday, May 26, 2019 8:37 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: > Hi Pronaip, > > Pronaip pronaip@protonmail.com writes: > > > I've been getting this error ever since I first installed Guix on Arch,= but I have no idea why. I've ran guix pull and guix package -u both as roo= t and as my own user several times since then but this error hasn't gone aw= ay. > > Also I noticed that some functionality that works on my GuixSD install = (like the `guix search` command) is simply nonexistent. > > For obvious reasons I have no idea what version I'm on but I've run gui= x pull sometime in the last 48 hours and I originally installed it about a = month or two before 1.0 came out. I also had some failed attempts at instal= ling the AUR version but I don't know if that affected the later version th= at I installed straight from the offical script. > > It sounds like ~/.config/guix/current/bin is missing from PATH. See > '4.6 Invoking guix pull' in the manual. > > Make sure that directory appears first in $PATH in order to get the > correct 'guix' executable. Huh, I thought sourcing `~/.config/guix/current/bin` was enough... guix stopped complaining about $PATH after I added that maybe there should be a warning about the .config path too...