Re: Everything segfaults

[Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>]

Paul van der Walt writes:

> Hello Guix,
>
> It's been a while, so i apologise for asking what are probably dumb
> questions.
>
> Quite a while ago i ran into this issue where (it might have been after
> a system upgrade including libc and such, i'm using git Guix on Arch
> Linux) all binaries segfault.

From what kernel version, to what kernel version have you moved?

> I didn't really have time to look at it then, and now i'm trying to get
> back on the Guix-horse.  I've done `guix package -i ..` for a few
> packages, some of which have and some of which haven't been updated in
> the meantime, but the problem persists.  Should i blow away the entire
> /gnu/store and reinstall Guix from scratch, or can something be
> debugged/salvaged?  My debugging-fu is weak, so i might need pointers.

Could you try running a program from your Guix profile using strace?
So, running it as normal, but then prepend "strace", like:
  strace git log

It may help figuring out what goes wrong.

Maybe this question belongs to help-guix@gnu.org instead.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen