Re: 'sudo -i guix pull' errors

[Quiliro Ordonez Baca <quiliro@riseup.net>]

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Quiliro Ordonez Baca <quiliro@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> I was running:
>> $ sudo guix system reconfigure config.scm --fallback
>> but it has taken 12 hours on a Core2Duo with 2GB in RAM. So I tryed:
>> $ sudo -i guix pull
>> but it reports errors:
>> $ sudo -i guix pull
>> Password: 
>> Updating from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
>> Backtrace:
>>           10 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/imanixx1wliv189y2vzmhbvabjk…")
>> In guix/ui.scm:
>>   1331:12  9 (run-guix-command _ . _)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>     837:9  8 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7fbf932d98c0 at guix/ui.scm:448…> …)
>>     837:9  7 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7fbf932d98d8 at guix/ui.scm:536…> …)
>>     837:9  6 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7fbf8ffdbbb8 at guix/scripts/pu…> …)
>> In guix/scripts/pull.scm:
>>    273:27  5 (_)
>> In guix/git.scm:
>>    115:29  4 (latest-repository-commit #<build-daemon 256.97 2a6cf50> …)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>     849:4  3 (with-throw-handler _ _ _)
>> In git/clone.scm:
>>     44:14  2 (_ _ _ _)
>> In git/structs.scm:
>>    398:26  1 (clone-options->pointer #<pointer 0x0>)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>    760:25  0 (dispatch-exception _ _ _)
>>
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:760:25: In procedure dispatch-exception:
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:760:25: In procedure struct_vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting struct): #<pointer 0x0>
>> $ 
>>
>
> That's terrible.  I'm not sure what this means, but I've seen similarly
> confusing backtraces when backwards-incompatible ABI changes have
> occurred.  Maybe you can try removing ~root/.cache/guile/ccache and see
> if the command works?

Ran:
sudo -E guix pull
and it worked. But if I run:
sudo -i guix system reconfigure config.scm --fallback
it complains that I am running an old version of Guix.