unofficial mirror of help-guix@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Henk Katerberg <henk.katerberg@verum.com>
To: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: guix pull fails while Migrating profile generations
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:39:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <676164e0fe504d2c8ef075613c84ee8d@mx.verum.com> (raw)

On my GuixSD system:

# guix pull
Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root'...
guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-1-link"

# ls -al /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 24 13:31 ./
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Oct 19 13:13 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 Oct 24 13:31 current-guix -> current-guix-6-link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 23 10:47 current-guix-1-link -> /gnu/store/qdw75jq1ca2yn5v2p2shsqzynx9kb4ry-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 23 10:47 current-guix-2-link -> /gnu/store/vq18fwd8h9c551iwjf2wdqdjiw7v6ga6-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 23 10:47 current-guix-3-link -> /gnu/store/09c5qi053swrdsr4ydcm0f3xwpr3chl2-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 23 10:49 current-guix-4-link -> /gnu/store/9lpay121z4r07m76fqq75a31njgdcysp-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 24 09:17 current-guix-5-link -> /gnu/store/hi11y3myi2590ca7vkhilx12l6gd277s-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   51 Oct 24 13:31 current-guix-6-link -> /gnu/store/dc6d6ycff573s8rln1sks02nghccgwfx-profile


I tried booting into an older generation of the system, but the current-guix-?-link symlinks are still there. Even in the first generation of the system guix pull now fails. Apparently due to its inability to create symlinks that are already there.

I tried removing the symlinks, but that did not resolve the issue.

What can I do to recover?

Regards,
Henk

             reply	other threads:[~2018-11-05 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-05 16:39 Henk Katerberg [this message]
2018-11-06 10:29 ` guix pull fails while Migrating profile generations Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-06 12:24   ` Henk Katerberg
2018-11-06 19:33   ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-07 15:04     ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-07 17:40       ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-11-09 16:37         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-09 18:27           ` Thorsten Wilms

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=676164e0fe504d2c8ef075613c84ee8d@mx.verum.com \
    --to=henk.katerberg@verum.com \
    --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).