From: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 29662@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29662: 'guix gc' as user makes system unbootable
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:46:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006d1841-686f-340a-539f-174281d55541@uni-bremen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878te0t8dc.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi,
On 18.12.2017 15:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Under what circumstances did you have a system without
> /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg?
>
I cannot tell. I had some fs errors and run e2fsck several times. Maybe
that removed the link? But since then, I had done several reconfigures.
I'd expect those to recreate it again.
>> # guix system switch-generation 14
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> The following derivation will be built:
>> /gnu/store/31bxx2nwp3lxzdkcy8bmybabfl1pi0af-grub.cfg.drv
>> Von Generation »10« zu »14« gewechselt
>> $ diff /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>> ## no-output, grub.cfg has still the same content->
>> /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg changed
>> # guix system reconfigure confs/config.scm
>> ## mentions expected grub error
>> $ diff /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>> see diff [2]
>>
>> it does not seem to update /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg.
>> and bootcfg somehow lists the generation number in the default entry.
>
> Are you saying that ‘guix system switch-generation’ does not update the
> target of the /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg symlink? (From a quick look at
> the code it seems to update it.)
No, if you read it again, you see that 'switch-generation' updates it
correctly. 'reconfigure' doesn't seem to update it!
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-18 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 17:21 bug#29662: 'guix gc' as user makes system unbootable Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-11 21:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-11 21:26 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-11 21:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-11 22:03 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-20 14:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-21 21:06 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-17 22:23 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-18 9:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-18 14:18 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-18 14:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-18 14:46 ` Martin Castillo [this message]
2018-01-08 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-08 18:37 ` Martin Castillo
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