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
next prev 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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