transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun Isaac]

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I installed the package `transmission-remote-cli` in my profile with
`guix package -i transmission-remote-cli`. But, the executable
`transmission-remote-cli` is not symlinked into
~/.guix-profile/bin/.

I have noticed similar problems in some other packages as well. How does
guix decide which executables to symlink into bin? Are these bugs in the
packages themselves?

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Leo Famulari]

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:29:35PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
> I installed the package `transmission-remote-cli` in my profile with
> `guix package -i transmission-remote-cli`. But, the executable
> `transmission-remote-cli` is not symlinked into
> ~/.guix-profile/bin/.
> 
> I have noticed similar problems in some other packages as well. How does
> guix decide which executables to symlink into bin? Are these bugs in the
> packages themselves?

Hi, thanks for the report!

I can't reproduce the bug. Can you give the output of `guix --version`?

And, can you try something like what I've shown below?

From a recent `guix pull` here is what I see when I check my Guix
version, inspect the built output of the package, install the package,
and then check the installed package binary's absolute path:

$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 20160822.06
Copyright (C) 2016 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ tree -a $(guix build transmission-remote-cli)
/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1
├── bin
│   ├── transmission-remote-cli -> /gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1/bin/.transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01
│   ├── .transmission-remote-cli-real
│   └── .transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01
├── etc
│   └── bash_completion.d
│       └── transmission-remote-cli-bash-completion.sh
└── share
    └── man
        └── man1
            └── transmission-remote-cli.1.gz

6 directories, 5 files
$ guix package -i transmission-remote-cli && which transmission-remote-cli && realpath $(which transmission-remote-cli)
The following package will be installed:
   transmission-remote-cli	1.7.1	/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1

57 packages in profile
The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
   export PATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/bin:/home/leo/.guix-profile/sbin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
   export TERMINFO_DIRS="/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/terminfo${TERMINFO_DIRS:+:}$TERMINFO_DIRS"
   export INFOPATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
   export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"
   export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/home/leo/.guix-profile/lib/guile/2.0/ccache:/home/leo/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0${GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH"
/home/leo/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli
/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1/bin/.transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun Isaac]

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Alex Kost writes:

> Are you sure you did "guix package -i transmission-remote-cli" as
> user?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Just to be doubly sure, I removed the package
with `guix package -r transmission-remote-cli` and installed again with
`guix package -i transmission-remote-cli`. Still, the same problem.

> All files placed in such "bin" directories appears in
> "~/.guix-profile/bin" when you install packages.  The same for other
> directories and files: symlinks to all of them are created for inside
> profile after a package is installed.

Ok. Makes sense.

Leo Famulari writes:

> And, can you try something like what I've shown below?

Please find below.

> $ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 20160822.04
Copyright (C) 2016 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

> $ tree -a $(guix build transmission-remote-cli)
/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1
├── bin
│   ├── transmission-remote-cli -> /gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1/bin/.transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01
│   ├── .transmission-remote-cli-real
│   └── .transmission-remote-cli-wrap-01
├── etc
│   └── bash_completion.d
│       └── transmission-remote-cli-bash-completion.sh
└── share
    └── man
        └── man1
            └── transmission-remote-cli.1.gz

6 directories, 5 files

> $ guix package -i transmission-remote-cli && which transmission-remote-cli && realpath $(which transmission-remote-cli)
The following package will be installed:
   transmission-remote-cli	1.7.1	/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1

64 packages in profile
The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
   export PATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/bin:/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/sbin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
   export CROSS_CPATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/avr/include${CROSS_CPATH:+:}$CROSS_CPATH"
   export CROSS_LIBRARY_PATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/avr/lib${CROSS_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$CROSS_LIBRARY_PATH"
   export ZATHURA_PLUGIN_PATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/lib/zathura${ZATHURA_PLUGIN_PATH:+:}$ZATHURA_PLUGIN_PATH"
   export INFOPATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
which: no transmission-remote-cli in (/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile/bin:/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile/sbin:/run/setuid-programs:/run/current-system/profile/bin:/run/current-system/profile/sbin)

Any pointers on how to debug this issue? Where could I be going wrong?
Is it possible I'm missing some environment variables? I'm on GuixSD.

Thanks.

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Alex Kost]

Arun Isaac (2016-08-23 08:35 +0300) wrote:

>> $ guix package -i transmission-remote-cli && which transmission-remote-cli && realpath $(which transmission-remote-cli)
> The following package will be installed:
>    transmission-remote-cli	1.7.1	/gnu/store/h620vv6ik6ybqaw22bdd4v83iadf7mw3-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1
>
> 64 packages in profile
> The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
>    export PATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/bin:/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/sbin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
>    export CROSS_CPATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/avr/include${CROSS_CPATH:+:}$CROSS_CPATH"
>    export CROSS_LIBRARY_PATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/avr/lib${CROSS_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$CROSS_LIBRARY_PATH"
>    export ZATHURA_PLUGIN_PATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/lib/zathura${ZATHURA_PLUGIN_PATH:+:}$ZATHURA_PLUGIN_PATH"
>    export INFOPATH="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
> which: no transmission-remote-cli in
> (/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile/bin:/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile/sbin:/run/setuid-programs:/run/current-system/profile/bin:/run/current-system/profile/sbin)
>
> Any pointers on how to debug this issue? Where could I be going wrong?
> Is it possible I'm missing some environment variables? I'm on GuixSD.

What is the output of:

  $ file ~/.guix-profile
  $ file ~/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli

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Alex

Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun Isaac]

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> What is the output of:
>
>   $ file ~/.guix-profile

/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link

>   $ file ~/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli

/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli: cannot open `/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli' (No such file or directory)

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Leo Famulari]

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 04:52:12PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
> 
> > What is the output of:
> >
> >   $ file ~/.guix-profile
> 
> /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link

That looks unusual to me. For me, it's like this, both on GuixSD and
Guix on another distro:

$ file ~/.guix-profile
/home/leo/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile

It would be interesting to see the full chain of symlinks.

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun Isaac]

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>> /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link
>
> That looks unusual to me.

I created a new test user (to get a guix-profile from scratch), and
there was no issue with transmission-remote-cli. Maybe, I should just
delete my ~/.guix-profile and ~/.guix-profile-2-link on user 'arunisaac'
and start from scratch.

> $ file ~/.guix-profile
> /home/leo/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile
>
> It would be interesting to see the full chain of symlinks.

The full chain of symlinks are as follows.

$ file ~/.guix-profile

.guix-profile: symbolic link to /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link

$ file ~/.guix-profile-2-link

/home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link: symbolic link to /gnu/store/8q44nc4vgljkxm3bsbvq9gqln6lqqm85-profile

$ file /gnu/store/8q44nc4vgljkxm3bsbvq9gqln6lqqm85-profile/

/gnu/store/8q44nc4vgljkxm3bsbvq9gqln6lqqm85-profile/: directory

Thank you! :-)

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun Isaac]

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>> > What is the output of:
>> >
>> >   $ file ~/.guix-profile
>> 
>> /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link
>
> That looks unusual to me. For me, it's like this, both on GuixSD and
> Guix on another distro:
>
> $ file ~/.guix-profile
> /home/leo/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile

And indeed, my /var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile/bin/
has transmission-remote-cli. It's just that, for whatever reason, my
~/.guix-profile is not pointing to
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile.

Though I still don't understand how ~/.guix-profile-2-link came to be, I
can now get my transmission-remote-cli working normally.

Thank you!

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Alex Kost]

Leo Famulari (2016-08-23 18:38 +0300) wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 04:52:12PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
>> 
>> > What is the output of:
>> >
>> >   $ file ~/.guix-profile
>> 
>> /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /home/arunisaac/.guix-profile-2-link
>
> That looks unusual to me.

I would replace "unusual" with "wrong" :-)

> For me, it's like this, both on GuixSD and
> Guix on another distro:
>
> $ file ~/.guix-profile
> /home/leo/.guix-profile: symbolic link to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile

Right, this is what it should be.  Arun, somehow ~/.guix-profile link
becomes broken for you.  I don't know how it could happen, maybe you did
"guix package -p ~/.guix-profile ...", not sure if it could lead to
this.  Anyway you can relink "~/.guix-profile" to
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile" to fix the problem
you faced.

Also note that "~/.guix-profile-N-link" shouldn't exist, you can remove
these links.

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun]

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> Right, this is what it should be.  Arun, somehow ~/.guix-profile link
> becomes broken for you.  I don't know how it could happen, maybe you did
> "guix package -p ~/.guix-profile ...", not sure if it could lead to
> this.  Anyway you can relink "~/.guix-profile" to
> "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile" to fix the problem
> you faced.

I fixed the problem by migrating to a new user and starting my guix profile
From scratch. I had just started using GuixSD and didn't have very much
set up. So, migrating was not a problem.

Thank you! :-)

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Leo Famulari]

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:41:26PM +0530, Arun wrote:
> 
> > Right, this is what it should be.  Arun, somehow ~/.guix-profile link
> > becomes broken for you.  I don't know how it could happen, maybe you did
> > "guix package -p ~/.guix-profile ...", not sure if it could lead to
> > this.  Anyway you can relink "~/.guix-profile" to
> > "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/arunisaac/guix-profile" to fix the problem
> > you faced.
> 
> I fixed the problem by migrating to a new user and starting my guix profile
> From scratch. I had just started using GuixSD and didn't have very much
> set up. So, migrating was not a problem.
> 
> Thank you! :-)

I'm glad it worked for you. Any idea what happened? Whether it's
"unusual" or "wrong", this situation should not occur :)

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Arun]

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> I'm glad it worked for you. Any idea what happened? Whether it's
> "unusual" or "wrong", this situation should not occur :)

I have no idea. But, I have not deleted the user account with the
problematic guix-profile. If you would like to run any tests, I can do
so.

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Leo Famulari]

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:59:51AM +0530, Arun wrote:
> 
> > I'm glad it worked for you. Any idea what happened? Whether it's
> > "unusual" or "wrong", this situation should not occur :)
> 
> I have no idea. But, I have not deleted the user account with the
> problematic guix-profile. If you would like to run any tests, I can do
> so.

I wouldn't know where to start. I'm going to build a GuixSD system from
the master branch to make sure this doesn't happen.

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Leo Famulari]

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 03:54:39PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:59:51AM +0530, Arun wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm glad it worked for you. Any idea what happened? Whether it's
> > > "unusual" or "wrong", this situation should not occur :)
> > 
> > I have no idea. But, I have not deleted the user account with the
> > problematic guix-profile. If you would like to run any tests, I can do
> > so.
> 
> I wouldn't know where to start. I'm going to build a GuixSD system from
> the master branch to make sure this doesn't happen.

Building from the latest HEAD of the master branch, my user's profile
was symlinked correctly when installing the user's first package.

Please let us know if this happens again.

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Re: transmission-remote-cli not symlinked in ~/.guix-profile/bin/

[Alex Kost]

Arun Isaac (2016-08-22 11:59 +0300) wrote:

> I installed the package `transmission-remote-cli` in my profile with
> `guix package -i transmission-remote-cli`. But, the executable
> `transmission-remote-cli` is not symlinked into
> ~/.guix-profile/bin/.

Are you sure you did "guix package -i transmission-remote-cli" as user?
I've just tried and got "~/.guix-profile/bin/transmission-remote-cli"
(it is a symlink to a wrapper but it doesn't matter), so most likely you
did something wrong.

> I have noticed similar problems in some other packages as well. How does
> guix decide which executables to symlink into bin?

If you run "guix build transmission-remote-cli", you'll see:

  /gnu/store/...-transmission-remote-cli-1.7.1

Now if you look at this directory, you'll see "bin" directory there.

All files placed in such "bin" directories appears in
"~/.guix-profile/bin" when you install packages.  The same for other
directories and files: symlinks to all of them are created for inside
profile after a package is installed.

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