bug#57764: Corrupted store on top on Debian, you want the output

[Maze <maze@pkbd.org>]

jbranso@dismail.de writes:



> September 15, 2022 2:59 AM, "Maze" <maze@pkbd.org> wrote:
>
>> I corrupted my store and it says you want the guix pull output, so
>> please find it at the end of this message. Mostly I send it because guix
>> asks, but (see below) at least 2 things broke on that machine, not sure
>> it's related. I have to explain a little but I don't actually require or
>> expect that a lot of indivudually-tailored help can be given by GNU in
>> this case... It's a non-standard use case on more than one account.
>> 
>> I have been doing more than a few unsupported things with this installation.
>> Over the week-end and Monday, 3 things stand out:
>> 
>> * I have been starting to use guix home on this guix which is not a guix
>> system but which is on top of Debian. I have some user shepherd
>> services. They still work as I'm writing this. I think this is
>> unsupported though.
>> 
>> * I tried to install a guix system to a thumb drive. It is inconvenient
>> to use the ISO so I decided to do it from Guix on top of Debian. When I
>
> I personally do not understand your usecase.  For me, installing the 
> guix system installer on a usb is as simple as:
>
> wget https://path/to/guix/installer.iso
> sudo dd if=installer.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress && sync
>
> I would rather do than than to try to build a custom iso image.  :)
>

I'd rather have a bootable and rw system on a thumbdrive than an ISO
image which is a ro system which loads itself in RAM. Changes don't
survive reboots, that's what I find inconvenient with an ISO image.

But anyway now I think I understand that I don't need to mount the store
copy-on-write when the installing (and booted) sytem has a rw store. At
least I think so, I'll try next time. It means what I did last time was
probably unnecessary to begin with.

> Also do you wanna just take the plunge and install guix system?
>
> It's super worth it!
>
> It has been the most stable distro that I have ever used.

I know it's much better with Guix system. But I'll need some time.
Because I live in a country where VPNs are a necessity but are supposed
to be licensed, I have my own homebrew VPN on Debian using ssh, sysvinit 
and a bunch of horribly dirty shell scripts and cron tasks. It is
probably possible to achieve a much better VPN system with shepherd, but
it's a programming task, I'm trying to do it. It's actually both
a motivation to migrate my main computer to Guix... and the reason why I
can't do it right now.

> Thanks,
>
> Joshua