Re: Chrooting into GuixSD

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>]

On 15.06.2018 17:01, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I haven’t tried, but something that would be equivalent to booting into
> the system is:
> 
>    chroot /path/to/guixsd
>    /gnu/store/*-guile-2.0.3/bin/guile /run/current-system/boot
> 
> It may interfere badly with the running system (like when it tries to
> bring up ttys), but maybe it’s OK?

Well, I tried:

   cd /path/to/guixsd
   chroot . /run/current-system/profile/bin/bash
   source /etc/profile
   guile /run/current-system/boot

---
guile: warning: failed to install locale
GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main 
thread
GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /run/current-system/boot
;;; compiled 
/home/thorwil/.cache/guile/ccache/2.2-LE-8-3.A/gnu/store/8m935f33cg4qzlr9d44ibqmcrwn5c1r4-boot.go
Backtrace:
           12 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1c799c0>)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
     705:2 11 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle?>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
     619:8 10 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1d26140>)))
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    2312:4  9 (save-module-excursion _)
   3822:12  8 (_)
In /run/current-system/boot:
     1:761  7 (_)
In unknown file:
            6 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/llka25n1x5l1nj82mr7xs8pi1if?")
In ice-9/eval.scm:
     619:8  5 (_ #f)
In ./gnu/build/activation.scm:
    439:33  4 (activate-current-system _)
    435:31  3 (boot-time-system)
In ./gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:
      90:3  2 (linux-command-line)
In ice-9/ports.scm:
    439:11  1 (call-with-input-file "/proc/cmdline" #<procedure get-?> ?)
In unknown file:
            0 (open-file "/proc/cmdline" "r" #:encoding #f # #f)

ERROR: In procedure open-file:
In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "/proc/cmdline"
---

I _guess_ if I'd bind proc, I would then find out dev and sys has to be 
taken care of, too, leading back to what I had already.


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