From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fail to configure home-directory
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:16:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87370gjhd8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0zof2l0.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:29:55 +0530")
Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Oops, that’s a bug that should be fixed now:
>>
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=82b71ac366ef154400653d264b46b7aa3520f393
>
> It works, thanks!
>
>>> Furthermore, I cannot mount a filesystem as /home:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> (file-system
>>> (device "home")
>>> (title 'label)
>>> (mount-point "/home")
>>> (type "ext4"))
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Running `guix system reconfigure' hangs after the `usermod...' changes.
>>> Not sure about how to print more debug details.
>>
>> Does /var/log/messages or /var/log/shepherd.log have more info?
>
> /var/log/shepherd.log does not log anything from the `guix system
> reconfigure...`.
What about /var/log/messages?
> I've managed to work around the issue:
>
> - Moving the mount point of "LABEL=home" from /mnt to /foo did not work.
>
> - After a failure, all subsequent `guix system reconfigure` fail, even
> the original, working configuration.
>
> - After a fresh system boot, commenting out the filesystem configuration
> of LABEL=home works. I rebooted after that. From then, I re-added
> the entry for LABEL=home with the new mount point /home. It worked
> after a reboot.
>
> Something is fishiy...
Hmm…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-31 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-26 18:38 Fail to configure home-directory Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-27 12:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-28 18:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-31 17:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-04-01 13:16 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-03 11:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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