Hi Oleg,

Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> apologies for not adding logs before.  It's hard to do when I do guix
> commands from Xterm and not from Emacs.  Emacs *shell* or *compilation*
> buffers will eat all memory if they get too much text.

I sympathize…

> The problem
> ===========
>
> The bigger problem from my view are files like /etc/group.lock and
> /etc/passwd.lock.  For example:
>
>     sudo touch /etc/group.lock
>
> /etc/config.scm
>
>     (operating-system
>       ;; …
>       (groups (cons
>          (user-group (name "test"))
>          %base-groups)))
>
> reconfigure log

I think we can avoid the problem by forcefully removing these two lock
files at boot time: