Re: error: rmdir: Device or resource busy

[swedebugia@riseup.net]

Hej!

On 2018-12-08 09:05, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> tried installing GuixSD 0.16. But hitting a cryptic error.
> 
> guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt
> --substitute-urls="http://berlin.guixsd.org http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org"
> ...
> /gnu/store/sh9x3mhl5q60yxhl861kpk6vm70l3w81-bootloader-installer
> 
> initializing operating system under '/mnt'...
> guix system: error: rmdir: Device or resource busy
> 
> This was working fine with 0.15.
> 
> Is there a way to get a better backtrace from system init? 

Yes!

From the manual: 
'--on-error=STRATEGY'
     Apply STRATEGY when an error occurs when reading FILE.  STRATEGY
     may be one of the following:

     'nothing-special'
          Report the error concisely and exit.  This is the default
          strategy.

     'backtrace'
          Likewise, but also display a backtrace.

     'debug'
          Report the error and enter Guile's debugger.  From there, you
          can run commands such as ',bt' to get a backtrace, ',locals'
          to display local variable values, and more generally inspect
          the state of the program.  *Note (guile)Debug Commands::, for
          a list of available debugging commands.

Actually the --help to "guix system" hints about this but it is not
telling how to use it, which is a bug I think. (i'm going to report it
and send a patch)

> Or does anyone
> know what the error might be?

I never saw it before.

-- 
Cheers 
Swedebugia