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From: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:14:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dl5n2mb.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHNILpuS7TAmzjtN@jasmine.lan>


Leo Famulari writes:
>> The output of `guix describe`:
>> ```
>> guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
>> hint: Perhaps this `guix' command was not obtained with `guix pull'? Its version string is 1.2.0rc2-1.0d4b1af.
>> ```
>
> This isn't quite right.
>
> It's expected that, before the first `guix pull`, the origin is not
> known. The per-user view of Guix, with provenance tracking, is created
> on the first `guix pull`.
>
> However, the version string should be 1.2.0.  Something has gone wrong
> on your system and caused you to "go back in time" to an earlier
> release, the second release candidate of the 1.2.0 release.

The steps I did after the install:

1) ping a website
2) guix pull (fails)
3) reconfigure system
4) guix describe

I think it is step 3 which caused the rollback to the release
candidate.  I even received a warning that running a reconfigure before
running `guix pull` could downgrade the system.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-10  4:28 guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0 Bone Baboon
2021-04-10  9:33 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-10 20:12   ` Bone Baboon
2021-04-10 23:07   ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-10 23:06 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-11  1:54   ` Bone Baboon
2021-04-11 19:04     ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-11 20:24       ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-14  0:26         ` Bone Baboon
2021-04-14 17:32           ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-14  0:14       ` Bone Baboon [this message]

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