Re: WARNING: loading compiled file activation.go failed: ERROR: not an ELF file

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:

> The warning/error shown below sounds alarming but seems to be
> harmless. But it leaves me wondering, is there a way to fix it?
>
> TIA - George
>
> root@g1 ~/con/4# guix system --fallback --cores=4 --max-jobs=4
> reconfigure sys.scm
> [...]
> activating system...
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /gnu/store/zaj3a5fsxjalirfypz6hn7hx3vc9d5kp-module-import-compiled/gnu/build/activation.go failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: not an ELF file
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /gnu/store/zaj3a5fsxjalirfypz6hn7hx3vc9d5kp-module-import-compiled/gnu/build/activation.go failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: not an ELF file
> making '/gnu/store/fz77c02mf1dh84zj5vxfswcq1m3ibhxz-system' the current system...
> [...]
> Installation finished. No error reported.

Contrary to what the messages say, these are actually warnings. ;-)
They come from Guile 2.2 complaining that it stumbled upon Guile 2.0 .go
files:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00515.html

(The warnings didn’t prevent ‘guix system reconfigure’ from completing.)

From now on, you should make sure you only have 2.2 .go files around.
If you use ‘guix pull’, that means that you have to run ‘guix pull’.

If instead ~/.config/guix/latest is a symlink to a checkout that you
made yourself, then make sure to “make clean && make” with Guile 2.2.

HTH!

Ludo’.