From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 18:10:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210516181036.f6ae7962bfeb19791a445092@freenet.de> (raw)
Hi! It seems every few weeks i’m thrown into a initramfs prompt, as
root got mounted read-only. The way out is always running fsck, which
reports errors and offers fixes that I either can’t map to anything, or
that refer to paths that belong to guix. Usually only below /gnu/store,
but this time also var/guix.
Now `guix pull` fails with:
```
;;; WARNING: loading compiled
file /gnu/store/8bsnz1fk330qbn1p8k18i0j11vld4jxd-guix-module-union/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache/guix/build-system/gnu.go
failed: ;;; In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: not an ELF file
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: Git
error: invalid data in index - incorrect header signature
```
At first, I focused on the warning (sorry, leoprikler) ... the same git
error happens when using an older guix.
Now a fix for that would be great, but independent of that, I have to
wonder how one should go about reinstalling guix on a foreign distro. I
cannot umount or remount and remove /gnu/store!
Even after `sudo systemctl stop gnu-store.mount`, /gnu/store is busy.
`fuser -kim /gnu/store/` will throw me out of the session, even though
I would think everything that belongs to it is part of the host (Ubuntu
Unity 20.10). No sudo umount or remount or rm -rf allowed, /gnu/store
remains ro and busy. Short of booting another system (say an USB
stick), is there a way to clear /gnu/store? Or to safely replace its
content?
--
Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
next reply other threads:[~2021-05-16 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-16 16:10 Thorsten Wilms [this message]
2021-05-18 2:23 ` How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro Joshua Branson
2021-05-18 7:49 ` Thorsten Wilms
2021-05-18 8:03 ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-18 9:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-05-18 11:38 ` Thorsten Wilms
[not found] ` <87fsykbwpg.fsf@foxmail.com>
2021-05-18 2:30 ` c4droid
2021-05-18 7:53 ` Thorsten Wilms
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