Hi Guix, As discussed on IRC with Ludo˘ and Ricardo, 4252dace19945f56192477e8cb07973c20a526ba introduced a circular dependency among gnu/services modules, by adding a dependency between from base -> admin, resulting in the full dependency chain: mcron -> base -> admin -> mcron I ran into this when building a channel. The error reported by guix pull was: ``` (repl-version 0 0) (exception misc-error (value #f) (value "Unbound variable: ~s") (value (mcron-service-type)) (value #f)) ``` Ludo˘ determined the full error was: ``` gnu/services/admin.scm:161:21: Unbound variable: mcron-service-type ``` by running the repl directly: ``` echo '(primitive-load "/gnu/store/vf892np8mnh2zx9dppcv9k25xk648n2d-inferior-script.scm")' \ | "/gnu/store/j7vxgnaqwimrzsnd8zhq9x1jdp7afl0s-guix-ca45da9fc/bin/guix" "repl" ``` Options for solving this problem include moving the guix-publish service into another module. However, this would break the API of (gnu service base), so we should be careful when doing that. It doesn't look like guix-publish is used elsewhere in the Guix code proper currently. For now, we might want to revert 4252dace19945f56192477e8cb07973c20a526ba. Best, Jack