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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Subject: Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 11:20:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6osjt3q.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518094954.4b29bcec4305e4c6062214da@freenet.de>


Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> writes:

> It does however claim that all except one power cylce has been 
> an unsafe
> shutdown, even though I had only a few hard resets and usually 
> shutdown
> by issuing `poweroff`.

That’s worrying.  “unsafe shutdown” leads to file system 
corruption, and Guix doesn’t like that at all.

> I would still like to have a minimal invasive way to get beyond:
> ```
> guix pull: error: Git error: invalid data in index - incorrect 
> header
> signature
> ```

Try erasing the git cache at ~/.cache/guix/checkouts first.

-- 
Ricardo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-16 16:10 How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro Thorsten Wilms
2021-05-18  2:23 ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-18  7:49   ` Thorsten Wilms
2021-05-18  8:03     ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-18  9:20     ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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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