On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:48:20PM +0800, tumashu wrote: "guix system reconfigure" can't work well in my machine now, the below is output: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- bash-4.4$ sudo guix system reconfigure guixsd-helper.scm ?????? ** wait long time, about 5 min.** substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/plhaxy8p26sxircfmx0vs05a3arva6v9-grub.cfg.drv /gnu/store/aqhdcr06max068sc8k3gvqqdvlb8l9dl-system /gnu/store/4dbisd6wcg494c70yn6y7jrydbw7giph-grub.cfg /gnu/store/cgl8v4q7x8zc09r9d39l7pgd9cx904f8-grub-2.02beta3 activating system... making '/gnu/store/aqhdcr06max068sc8k3gvqqdvlb8l9dl-system' the current system... setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'... populating /etc from /gnu/store/ba01asqiwhmwrq8scisg3dpkpn8yknyp-etc... usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? usermod???????? guix system: loading new services: file-system-/mnt/backup1 file-system-/mnt/backup2... shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gn...") #). ****looooooooooooooooooooooong time and I have to C-c C-c it.***** Actually I had the same problem doing "guix system reconfigure" yesterday. It took well over 15 minutes. (nothing needed to be downloaded or compiled - that 15 mins seemed to be purely to build the configuration) - I had never experienced such a long wait before. It did complete ok eventually though. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.