On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:57:57AM -0500, sirgazil wrote:
> I'm using the GNU system. I did a guix pull yesterday. Now I have this Guix:
> 
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> $ LANG=C guix describe
> Generation 80	May 08 2020 15:18:18	(current)
>   sirgazil-x ef6ac93
>     repository URL: https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guix-channel-x.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: ef6ac9331a7847fdec6f0eb199524b1b755ba0df
>   guix 35c43fc
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 35c43fcdbb408a5755efebc13241dd9082360aa1
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> 
> Then, I added a new user to the system, reconfigured, logged in with the new user, ran guix pull, and got this error:
> 
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> $ LANG=C guix pull
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Building from this channel:
> guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 36cf1ee
> guix pull: error: glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch: patch not found
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> 
> And I get this error when I try guix describe with that user:
> 
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> $ LANG=C guix describe
> guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
> hint: Perhaps this `guix' command was not obtained with `guix pull'? Its version string is 1.1.0-3.52b01cb.
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> 
> Also, I get this:
> 
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> $ which guix
> /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> 
> Shouldn't it be something like "/home/USER/.config/guix/current/bin/guix"?
> 
> I don't understand what's going on... For what it's worth, previous to the steps in this message, I was using core-updates (pulled that branch and reconfigured the system afterwards).
> 
> ---
> https://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/
> 

I recently upgraded my kids' computer post-core-update merge and I ran
into the same issue. The trick was to make sure to use
~/.configure/guix/bin/guix for 'guix pull' and not
'/run/current-system/profile/bin/guix'. For the new user I'd recommend
running 'guix pull' for them once using another user's guix binary.

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