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Le 2017-05-16 15:11, Konrad Hinsen a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> On 16/05/2017 15:02, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>=20
>> I ended up rolling back until my profile no longer contained "guix" (I
>> have no idea how I could ever produce such a profile), so now I am
>> completely stuck. Any idea for getting out of this mess?
>=20
> I forgot two details:
>=20
>  - I tried building python-2.7.12 using --fallback. This fails because
> one of the tests (test_pty) fails.
>=20
>  - Under another user account, I still have a working guix profile
> because I hardly ever update it. I'd like to avoid breaking it, and
> therefore avoid the brute-force approach of re-doing the binary
> install procedure.
>=20
> Konrad.

Hi Konrad,

You could probably use the other user's guix version. Copy=20
~otheruser/.config/guix/latest to your own user's .config/guix, and try=20
to guix pull from that. That won't mess with the other user's profile.