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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Fail to configure home-directory
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:16:03 +0200
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Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Oops, that=E2=80=99s a bug that should be fixed now:
>>
>>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D82b71ac366ef15=
4400653d264b46b7aa3520f393
>
> 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=3Dhome" from /mnt to /foo did not work.
>
> - After a failure, all subsequent `guix system reconfigure` fail, even
>   the original, working configuration.
>=20=20=20
> - After a fresh system boot, commenting out the filesystem configuration
>   of LABEL=3Dhome works.  I rebooted after that.  From then, I re-added
>   the entry for LABEL=3Dhome with the new mount point /home.  It worked
>   after a reboot.
>
> Something is fishiy...

Hmm=E2=80=A6

Ludo=E2=80=99.