On 2023-06-23, Philip McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, at 2:50 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> On 2023-06-23, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:44 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> On 2023-06-21, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>>>> I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit
>>>>> guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for
>>>>> `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working
>>>>> machine. Removing that option got things working again!
>>>>
>>>>> I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like
>>>>> the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix
>>>>> scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be
>>>>> supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible
>>>>> example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to
>>>>> do it yourself.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, please file a bug at bugs.debian.org ... if this bug has been fixed
>>>> in newer commits on upstream guix, that would be helpful information! :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Reported as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038916
>>
>> Well, that got me looking in the right place!
>>
>> guile-avahi is not packaged for Debian and somewhere along the way was
>> added as a dependency for guix, presumably for this (and possibly other)
>> feature(s).
>>
>> At least, that is my working theory :)
>>
>
> On the Guix side, it seems like either guile-avahi should be a mandatory dependency or guix-daemon should fail much more gracefully without it.

Sounds like a bug report for upstream too! :)

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  vagrant