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Subject: Re: GuixSD in a kvm
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:02:42 +0200
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Christian Thaeter <ct.guix@pipapo.org> writes:
>
>> When reconfiguring the disk to IDE or Virtio it starts booting but ends
>> up in a kernel panic
>>  http://public.pipapo.org/guix3.png
>>
>> killing init? wtf.... anyone has an idea what could be going wrong
>> there?
>
> The initrd script threw an error, thus you get a kernel panic.  The
> errors in that screenshot show that the initrd couldn't write to
> /etc/group when creating your user account, which caused a later call to
> 'getpw' to fail.

I think the problem is that there=E2=80=99s a stale /etc/group.lock file (t=
his
is what =E2=80=98groupadd=E2=80=99 reports.)

Christian: could you try to remove that file (you may need to access the
partition from another system, for example) and reboot?

We shouldn=E2=80=99t be ignoring groupadd=E2=80=99s return value, but there=
=E2=80=99s nothing
sane we can do, is there?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.