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From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org,  guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where to find dmesg and /etc contents of specific system generation?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:34:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8eg90kz.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACw=CXND1w3h_0XYVrWi2SFXMmSO3vEXOch5wGmB21830fUr7w@mail.gmail.com> (Vladilen Kozin's message of "Fri, 9 Apr 2021 13:39:41 +0100")

Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi guix.
>
> Is it possible and where could I find contents of /etc for a specific
> system generation. Ditto dmesg of the last boot of specific
> generation? Not necessarily current generation though.

Hmmm.  I suppose you could try to make a guix system vm with that
configuration, and try to fire up the vm and see what happens...I'm not
certain how helpful that would be though.

>
> In a nutshell: I have a generation that boots and works fine, but
> sadly I also have a generation that fails to boot. I'd like to debug
> the issue by looking at its dmesg as far as it had gotten and also
> checking its /etc/fstab and such seeing how the problem appears to be
> mount related.

I think guix may support connecting to a serial console, though I've
never tried it.

You're trying to run a server right?  How complicated is your config?

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09 12:39 Where to find dmesg and /etc contents of specific system generation? Vladilen Kozin
2021-04-14 18:34 ` Joshua Branson [this message]

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