I don't think it is a networking issue, when I run: sudo guix system --verbosity=100 reconfigure ./guixsd-helper.scm The output is like: ---------------------------------------------------------------- -acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' acquiring write lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/870' ... time > 5min ----------------------------- ---------------- At 2017-01-14 01:28:53, "ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic" <=?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)> wrote: >Hello, > >tumashu skribis: > >> "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 >> ÃÜÂ룺 >> >> ** wait long time, about 5 min.** > >Ouch. Could there be a networking issue? > >> 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.***** >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 2. In the console, the below information is showed: >> ------------------------ >> e2fsck: cannot continue, aborting >> ... >> File system check on /dev/sda8 failed.... >> ------------------------ > >This very likely an instance of . I¡¯ll see >if I can fix it soonish if nobody beats me at it. > >Thanks for your report! > >Ludo¡¯.