Re: Corrupt/missing store items

[Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Jack Hill wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Christopher Baines wrote:
>
>> 
>> Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> writes:
>> 
>>> Given what i know about the problem: substitute operations are failing
>>> because gnutls is not available, I tried:
>>> 
>>> jackhill@kalessin ~$ guix build --substitute-urls=http://ci.guix.gnu.org 
>>> /gnu/store/zkhymfsbrv0s4y7l778g78k6y65nidxd-gnutls-3.6.16.drv
>>> /gnu/store/2vjql2vd6srqxhr0r9xnhclqgc5kxlh1-gnutls-3.6.16-debug
>>> /gnu/store/ads39f4czri8s1k43qd0qpxi6dr3w0zn-gnutls-3.6.16-doc
>>> /gnu/store/jlk67v3nddhv0z963wfvahk8fc8gqcz8-gnutls-3.6.16
>>> jackhill@kalessin ~$ ls -l 
>>> /gnu/store/jlk67v3nddhv0z963wfvahk8fc8gqcz8-gnutls-3.6.16
>>> ls: cannot access 
>>> '/gnu/store/jlk67v3nddhv0z963wfvahk8fc8gqcz8-gnutls-3.6.16': No such file 
>>> or directory
>>> 
>>> So Guix think's it's sucessfully built gnutls, but it's still not
>>> present in the store. I've also tried copying the store items from
>>> other hosts. No luck so far…
>> 
>> Does guix gc --verify=repair say anything?
>
> It fails, becasue without gnutls my substitute servers can't be contacted. I 
> also can't reconfigure with http:// substitute servers. Unfortunatley, gc 
> doesn't accept a substitute-urls option.

Ok, I started the daemon by hand with http-only substitute servers, and 
--verify=repair appears to have solved my problem as far as I can tell so 
far.

Thanks to you and nckx!
Jack