From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: bug#20722: Cannot rerun 'guix system init' Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:43:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3f30776452649ca3f636862dc408109b@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpIN-0005eN-G0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:44:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpIJ-00052F-1e for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:44:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpII-00052B-UD for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:44:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpII-0005kM-OT for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:44:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpI7-0004wa-0g for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:43:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpI3-0004vx-0s for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:43:50 -0400 Received: from smtp7.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.41]:40424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzpI2-0004vq-OY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:43:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7C4203056 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:43:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail2.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.33]) by localhost (mail.openmailbox.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3YSh6NXAR9yq for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:43:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.openmailbox.org (mail2.openmailbox.org [62.4.1.33]) by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B454D202F47 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:43:43 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: 20722@debbugs.gnu.org Hello Guix, I ran into this issue while doing a fresh install of Guix 0.8.2. I had a typo in my declaration of the grub device (I had unintentionally left out the leading "/" on "/dev/sda"), so 'guix system init' failed when setting up grub. I fixed the typo in the OS config and reran 'guix system init' but was greeted by an error about existing store directories. I ended up needing to remove the /mnt/var, /mnt/grub, and /mnt/gnu/store before being able to successfully rerun 'guix system init'. It would be useful for newcomers if recovering from mistakes were more trivial. -- `~Eric