Re: Possible bug in configuration-system?

[jbranso@dismail.de]

I volunteer as tribute to send a patch to fix the manual!

January 26, 2021 11:31 AM, "Mikhail Tsykalov" <tsymsh@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Raghav,
> 
> Example in the manual is wrong, it should say 'targets' instead of 'target'.
> 
> Regards,
> Mikhail.
> 
> On 26.01.2021 20:35, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mikhail!
>> 
>> I just noticed the commit >
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=a9a2fdaabcc78e7a54d9a6bcfa4ee3de308e9a90.
>> 
>> Do you have any clue regarding the following issue?
>> 
>>> As mentioned in this page of manual >>
>>> (http://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Mapped-Devices.html), for >> lvm-device-mapping, I did the
>>> following in my config.scm:
>>> 
>>> ```
>>> (mapped-devices
>>> (list
>>> (mapped-device
>>> (source
>>> (uuid "47bb32fe-da7f-4eb6-a11d-ae07a3a2e6f8"))
>>> (target "secondary")
>>> (type luks-device-mapping))
>>> (mapped-device
>>> (source "secondary")
>>> (target (list "secondary-root" "secondary-home"))
>>> (type lvm-device-mapping))))
>>> ```
>>> 
>>> When I did `guix system reconfigure`, I got the following error:
>>> 
>>> ```
>>> Backtrace:
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 1736:10 19 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>>> 1731:15 18 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7fe09e8b7930 at >> ic…> …)
>>> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>>> 1391:8 17 (_)
>>> In guix/status.scm:
>>> 780:4 16 (call-with-status-report _ _)
>>> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>>> 1219:4 15 (_)
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 1736:10 14 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>>> In guix/store.scm:
>>> 636:37 13 (thunk)
>>> 1305:8 12 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7fe09e672720 at >> g…> …)
>>> 2062:24 11 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7fe09786ab40> …)
>>> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>>> 1243:15 10 (_ _)
>>> 813:9  9 (perform-action reconfigure #<<operating-system> >> kerne…> …)
>>> In gnu/system.scm:
>>> 1312:26  8 (operating-system-bootcfg #<<operating-system> >> kernel:…> …)
>>> 574:14  7 (operating-system-bootloader-crypto-devices #<<operatin…>)
>>> In unknown file:
>>> 6 (filter #<procedure 7fe09580d7a0 at >> gnu/system.scm:551…> …)
>>> In gnu/system.scm:
>>> 552:26  5 (_ _)
>>> 528:17  4 (mapped-device-users #<<mapped-device> source: >> "second…> …)
>>> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>>> 586:17  3 (map1 (("secondary-root" "secondary-home")))
>>> In unknown file:
>>> 2 (string-append "/dev/mapper/" ("secondary-root" "seco…"))
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 1669:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>>> 1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>>> 
>>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>>> In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): >> ("secondary-root" "secondary-home")
>>> ```
>>> 
>>> When I do the following in my config.scm, system reconfigure works fine:
>>> 
>>> ```
>>> (mapped-devices
>>> (list
>>> (mapped-device
>>> (source
>>> (uuid "47bb32fe-da7f-4eb6-a11d-ae07a3a2e6f8"))
>>> (target "secondary")
>>> (type luks-device-mapping))
>>> (mapped-device
>>> (source "secondary")
>>> (target "secondary-root")
>>> (type lvm-device-mapping))))
>>> ```
>>> 
>>> So seems like listing more than one target causes the error. Is this >> a bug?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> RG.