From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Divan Santana Subject: Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:26:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87muxzh7hu.fsf@santanas.co.za> References: <87k1t7hvtv.fsf@santanas.co.za> <871sfehtla.fsf@santanas.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f96Jw-0002Kr-C0 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:57:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f96Jr-0002Hb-H9 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:57:40 -0400 Received: from outmail148095.authsmtp.com ([62.13.148.95]:59700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f96Jr-0002H5-7p for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:57:35 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Chris Marusich Cc: help-guix Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Divan! > > Thank you for taking the time to write to us about the problem. These > kinds of but reports are very helpful! Your welcome. Thanks for the great reply. > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 06:43 Divan Santana wrote: > >> OK, I think this is a bug. > > > It could be. Please report it to bug-guix@gnu.org. If you have an > operating system configuration file that reproduces the problem > consistently, please share it in your report. In particular, if you can > reproduce the problem using "guix system vm", it will make things much > easier for us to debug. The manual describes how to use that command: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html I need to spend time on this and try reproduce it and report it properly. For the moment I've worked around it. > > The way I worked around it was to: > > >> 1) remount /gnu/store rw >> >> 2) >> >> cd >> >> /gnu/store/n9ym4yl7s55pm57rnc5whjlzjgvxas32-linux-libre-4.16.2/lib/modules/4.16.2-gnu/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/ >> cp usb_storage.ko usb-storage.ko >> > > That's good to know, but you should not modify files in the store or mount > it rw. Absolutely. I just did it to try test the theory. I've undone the hack and will see if things break later. But this is a test system. > It can lead to unpredictable behavior because doing so may violate > certain invariants. When hacking around on a throw-away system to > investigate an issue like this, don't this might be useful, but on systems > you care about, essentially the only way you should interact with the store > is via the public Guix scheme APIs and the Guix command line tools, since > they will ensure that the store's invariants are never violated. > Again, thank you for the report! I hope everything is smooth sailing from > this point on. Thanks again. Doubt it will be smooth sailing lol. But I'm learning and guix is awesome and hope to continue learning and cotribute more in time. -- Divan