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Subject: bug#33360: Guix does not error pretty when filesystem is ro
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:21:40 +0100
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To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
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Hello,

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> skribis:

> Today I booted up my pc from standby.
>
> Qemu was running GuixSD from a cow on an USB-disk.
>
> It had remounted ro and I got weird errors from guix when trying to build.
>
> All other programs just stated the obvious:
>
> "Cannot write to bla bla - read-only filesystem."
>
> Guix of course tried to do a lot but failed of course.

Could you paste the exact command you run and its output?

TIA,
Ludo=E2=80=99.