unofficial mirror of help-guix@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Akram Chehaima <aslackw@riseup.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Grub : Could not delete variable: Invalid argument
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:55:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190816185531.GA2118@planet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190816182257.GA30269@planet>

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 07:22:57PM +0100, Akram Chehaima wrote:
> Hey
> My system was  working fine , like other days
> I run these routine commands
> 
> # guix pull
> 
> But whene i run
> 
> # sudo guix system reconfigure  /etc/config.scm
> 
> I have problem message from grub:
> 
> 
> slack@planet ~$ sudo guix system reconfigure  /etc/config.scm 
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
> 
>      guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
>      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
> 
> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
> 
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> The following derivation will be built:
>    /gnu/store/drw1mbhx088q4ans6nsqd53rr02g5rn2-grub.cfg.drv
> building /gnu/store/drw1mbhx088q4ans6nsqd53rr02g5rn2-grub.cfg.drv...
> /gnu/store/wj8rlkvcmz80ib6c3lz5qhbg1drlvzmp-system
> /gnu/store/6ak1rfdkcp0pm4wwy3cia85psq63q06m-grub.cfg
> 
> activating system...
> making '/gnu/store/wj8rlkvcmz80ib6c3lz5qhbg1drlvzmp-system' the current system...
> setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...
> populating /etc from /gnu/store/pxhzsr2iq2xy221p3n09gkgns4g0as2k-etc...
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> building /gnu/store/1rhjd4ahqg7zm1n11f1n0zzh6dikhbb8-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
> guix system: error: '/gnu/store/jjys4nn7s5xi9i2wbdb0gvl50cisy1wb-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory //boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory //boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows:
> 
>   Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
>   Could not delete variable: Invalid argument
>   /gnu/store/jjys4nn7s5xi9i2wbdb0gvl50cisy1wb-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Block device required.
> 
> slack@planet ~$ sudo guix system reconfigure  /etc/config.scm 
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
> 
>      guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
>      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
> 
> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
> 
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> The following derivation will be built:
>    /gnu/store/drw1mbhx088q4ans6nsqd53rr02g5rn2-grub.cfg.drv
> building /gnu/store/drw1mbhx088q4ans6nsqd53rr02g5rn2-grub.cfg.drv...
> /gnu/store/wj8rlkvcmz80ib6c3lz5qhbg1drlvzmp-system
> /gnu/store/6ak1rfdkcp0pm4wwy3cia85psq63q06m-grub.cfg
> 
> activating system...
> making '/gnu/store/wj8rlkvcmz80ib6c3lz5qhbg1drlvzmp-system' the current system...
> setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...
> populating /etc from /gnu/store/pxhzsr2iq2xy221p3n09gkgns4g0as2k-etc...
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> building /gnu/store/1rhjd4ahqg7zm1n11f1n0zzh6dikhbb8-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
> guix system: error: '/gnu/store/jjys4nn7s5xi9i2wbdb0gvl50cisy1wb-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory //boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory //boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows:
> 
>   Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
>   Could not delete variable: Invalid argument
>   /gnu/store/jjys4nn7s5xi9i2wbdb0gvl50cisy1wb-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Block device required.
>   
> Note that I have not restarted the system yet.
> Is there a solution ?
> 
> 
I have solved the problem after rebooting the system
I was afraid after a reboot will not boot because of a problem with Grub

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-16 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16 18:22 Grub : Could not delete variable: Invalid argument Akram Chehaima
2019-08-16 18:55 ` Akram Chehaima [this message]
2020-02-18 20:28   ` Maxim Cournoyer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190816185531.GA2118@planet \
    --to=aslackw@riseup.net \
    --cc=help-guix@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).