Re: i18n guix module error when opening shell after guix home reconfigure

[Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@posteo.net>]

Hi,

Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> writes:

> Hello Roland,
>
> Sad prefix: I don't have a solution for you, nor am I a guix home
> expert, but I can confirm that I also run into the issue. 
>
> On my VM, I actually used an almost-default bash configuration, but run
> into the very same issue.
>
> Roland Everaert via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> First, happy new year and best wishes for this year.
>>
>> I have updated my guix home configuration to use my zsh config instead of a blank bash configuration.
>>
>> Unfortunatelly, when I logout and login again, I face the following errors:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Backtrace:
>> 9 (primitive-load "/home/roland/.guix-home/on-first-login")
>> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>> 721:20 8 (primitive-eval (begin (use-modules (guix i18n)) (# …) …))
>> In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
>> 1230:36 7 (expand-top-sequence ((begin (use-modules (guix …)) …)) …)
>> 1090:25 6 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # …)) …)
>> 1222:19 5 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # …)) …)
>> 259:10 4 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) (()) _ c&e (eval) …)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 3927:20 3 (process-use-modules _)
>> 222:17 2 (map1 (((guix i18n))))
>> 3928:31 1 (_ ((guix i18n)))
>> 3329:6 0 (resolve-interface (guix i18n) #:select _ #:hide _ # _ # …)
>>
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:3329:6: In procedure resolve-interface:
>> no code for module (guix i18n)
>
> It seems that my $HOME/.guix-home/on-first-login assumes that guix's
> guile modules are available to the guile interpreter that is listed in
> the shebang;
>
>> Any idea what might cause such trouble?
>
> If you are not worried about temporarily running some older software,
> could you try and see if running:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix time-machine --commit=2719dfa631 -- home reconfigure your-home-config.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> works for you? This will get guix to use an older copy of itself to
> build and 'install' your home environment.

I'm also encountering this issue running guix on a foreign distro. Not
sure which commit it stopped working, but it's broken in:

172bd0b5cde2609389fd16d18862b5b612c4b000

works when I use the guix time-machine command above.

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