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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hebi Li <lihebi.com@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to properly use channels? (my 'guix pull' throws error)
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:07:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvm4psox.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0szvfft.fsf@gmail.com> (Hebi Li's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:31:50 -0500")

Hello,

Hebi Li <lihebi.com@gmail.com> skribis:

> Hi guys,

s/guys/people/ :-)

> I was trying to use Marius's channel [1] for Chromium. However,
> following Marius's instruction, when my ~/.config/guix/channels.scm is
> in place, 'guix pull' throws me this error:
>
> guix pull: error: failed to load '/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm':
> system/base/compile.scm:144:21: In procedure compile-file:
> failed to create path for auto-compiled file
> "/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm"

Could it be that ~/.cache/guile/… is read-only or owned by a different
user?

As a test you could try to “rm -rf ~/.cache/guile”.  This is the place
where Guile stores object files resulting from auto-compilation.

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-02 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-27  2:31 How to properly use channels? (my 'guix pull' throws error) Hebi Li
2018-10-02 10:07 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-10-02 18:10   ` Hebi Li
2018-10-02 18:22     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-02 19:16       ` Hebi Li
2018-10-02 19:42         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-02 20:11           ` Hebi Li
2018-10-02 20:19             ` Ricardo Wurmus

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