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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: damaged installation
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:04:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3bgpsuw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHEkXCQb-h014YgccZLvrt4db8v=Te4Bi5CE5juH_Z2UnyudxQ@mail.gmail.com> (carl hansen's message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:25:43 -0700")

Hello,

carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:48 AM Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>>
>> carl hansen <carlhansen1234@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I installed guix 0.15 on Debian testing system
>> > Power went out while 'guix pull'ing or something.
>> > Now, show stopper error. Attached. How to proceed?
>>
>> I would move .config/guix to another location (or simply delete it),
>> optionally run "guix gc --verify=contents", and then rerun "guix pull".
>>
>>       Mark
>
> I tried suggestions, no good. I reinstalled from the beginning ,
> starting with the guix.binary0.15.x86_64.tar.gz
> TWICE and I get same problem:

If you unpacked the guix-binary tarball on top of your system, it’s
likely that the store is now corrupt.

You should at least “rm -rf /gnu /var/guix /etc/guix ~/.config/guix”
before unpacking the tarball.  (Though you shouldn’t need to reinstall
from the tarball in the first place.)

HTH!

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-10-02 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-25  7:23 damaged installation carl hansen
2018-09-26 18:36 ` znavko
2018-09-27  7:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-27  7:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-28  8:25   ` carl hansen
2018-10-02 10:04     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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