From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix build gives `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:36:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YesnYQejk1qthtHp@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee50g4he.fsf@beadling.co.uk>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:31:57PM +0000, Phil wrote:
> Thanks Leo - indeed it was so suprising that I thought it was referring
> to the root of the chroot used to build rather than just the root of
> Ubuntu.
>
> This was a bad assumption on my behalf as /homeless-shelter really did
> exist at my filesystem root (containing a single .config directory with
> 2 yamls in it related to the python dask package).
>
> I moved the directory and everything is back to normal.
>
> Even stranger the datestamp on the homeless shelter was from November
> 2021, so why it decided to start fail yesterday I have no idea.
>
> Thanks again and sorry for the daft question - if I'd literally followed
> the advice in the error message I'd have resolved it myself! Way too
> much overthinking on my behalf!
It's not daft! The situation is really surprising. The only good
explanation I can think of is that guix-daemon was used the the
"--disable-chroot" option. Do you remember if you used that option?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-21 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-21 18:50 guix build gives `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it Phil Beadling
2022-01-21 20:43 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-21 21:31 ` Phil
2022-01-21 21:36 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2022-01-21 21:56 ` Phil
2022-01-21 22:14 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-22 4:50 ` raingloom
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