Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Philip McGrath]

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On a Debian Bookworm system, most Guix commands are failing for me with errors like the following unless I supply --no-substitutes:
```
philip@avalon:~$ guix build hello
substitute: ;;; Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover):
substitute: ;;; no code for module (guix scripts discover)
substitute: Backtrace:
substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
substitute:   1752:10 15 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
substitute: In unknown file:
substitute:           14 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 7f6408f132e0>)
substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
substitute:     724:2 13 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle…>)
substitute: In ice-9/eval.scm:
substitute:     619:8 12 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f6408f18c80>)))
substitute: In guix/ui.scm:
substitute:    2275:7 11 (run-guix . _)
substitute:    2217:7 10 (run-guix-command substitute "--query")
substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
substitute:   1747:15  9 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7f6400cb93f0 at ic…> …)
substitute:   3327:17  8 (resolve-interface (guix scripts substitute) #:select _ …)
substitute: In ice-9/threads.scm:
substitute:     390:8  7 (_ _)
substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
substitute:   3253:13  6 (_)
substitute: In ice-9/threads.scm:
substitute:     390:8  5 (_ _)
substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
substitute:   3544:20  4 (_)
substitute:    2836:4  3 (save-module-excursion _)
substitute:   3564:26  2 (_)
substitute: In unknown file:
substitute:            1 (primitive-load-path "guix/scripts/substitute" #<proced…>)
substitute: In guix/scripts/substitute.scm:
substitute:    753:33  0 (_)
substitute: 
substitute: guix/scripts/substitute.scm:753:33: error: read-substitute-urls: unbound variable
guix build: error: `/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly
philip@avalon:~$ command -v guix
/home/philip/.config/guix/current/bin/guix
```

Trying `guix pull --no-substitutes` works, but with the obvious downsides.

It seems like there's something wrong with the Guile load path, but I don't understand what. I've attached the environment variables in effect, if that helps.

It's possible that this could be somehow related to <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05/msg00235.html>, but I've applied the same workaround I use on a Kubuntu 22.10 system that doesn't have this problem.

-Philip

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Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
> On a Debian Bookworm system, most Guix commands are failing for me with errors like the following unless I supply --no-substitutes:
> ```
> philip@avalon:~$ guix build hello
> substitute: ;;; Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover):
...
> substitute: In unknown file:
> substitute:            1 (primitive-load-path "guix/scripts/substitute" #<proced…>)
> substitute: In guix/scripts/substitute.scm:
> substitute:    753:33  0 (_)
> substitute: 
> substitute: guix/scripts/substitute.scm:753:33: error: read-substitute-urls: unbound variable
> guix build: error: `/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly
> philip@avalon:~$ command -v guix
> /home/philip/.config/guix/current/bin/guix
> ```

I don't seem to have this problem on Debian bookworm with guix
1.4.0-3. I also uploaded 1.4.0-4 with possibly related fixes, but that
is stuck in sid/unstable for now...

Not sure if it matters, but I am not using guix home...


> It's possible that this could be somehow related to
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05/msg00235.html>,
> but I've applied the same workaround I use on a Kubuntu 22.10 system
> that doesn't have this problem.

Does it work at all *without* the workaround (presumably logging out and
back in again, etc.)?

Do older guix pull generations work?


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Philip McGrath]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
>> On a Debian Bookworm system, most Guix commands are failing for me with errors like the following unless I supply --no-substitutes:
>> ```
>> philip@avalon:~$ guix build hello
>> substitute: ;;; Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover):
> ...
>> substitute: In unknown file:
>> substitute:            1 (primitive-load-path "guix/scripts/substitute" #<proced…>)
>> substitute: In guix/scripts/substitute.scm:
>> substitute:    753:33  0 (_)
>> substitute: 
>> substitute: guix/scripts/substitute.scm:753:33: error: read-substitute-urls: unbound variable
>> guix build: error: `/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly
>> philip@avalon:~$ command -v guix
>> /home/philip/.config/guix/current/bin/guix
>> ```
>
> I don't seem to have this problem on Debian bookworm with guix
> 1.4.0-3. I also uploaded 1.4.0-4 with possibly related fixes, but that
> is stuck in sid/unstable for now...
>
> Not sure if it matters, but I am not using guix home...
>
>
>> It's possible that this could be somehow related to
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05/msg00235.html>,
>> but I've applied the same workaround I use on a Kubuntu 22.10 system
>> that doesn't have this problem.
>
> Does it work at all *without* the workaround (presumably logging out and
> back in again, etc.)?
>
> Do older guix pull generations work?
>

I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working machine. Removing that option got things working again!

I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to do it yourself.

-Philip

Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2023-06-21, Philip McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
> I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit
> guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for
> `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working
> machine. Removing that option got things working again!

> I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like
> the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix
> scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be
> supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible
> example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to
> do it yourself.

Yes, please file a bug at bugs.debian.org ... if this bug has been fixed
in newer commits on upstream guix, that would be helpful information! :)


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Philip McGrath]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:44 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-06-21, Philip McGrath wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
>> I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit
>> guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for
>> `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working
>> machine. Removing that option got things working again!
>
>> I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like
>> the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix
>> scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be
>> supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible
>> example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to
>> do it yourself.
>
> Yes, please file a bug at bugs.debian.org ... if this bug has been fixed
> in newer commits on upstream guix, that would be helpful information! :)
>

Reported as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038916

Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2023-06-23, Philip McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:44 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> On 2023-06-21, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>> I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit
>>> guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for
>>> `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working
>>> machine. Removing that option got things working again!
>>
>>> I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like
>>> the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix
>>> scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be
>>> supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible
>>> example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to
>>> do it yourself.
>>
>> Yes, please file a bug at bugs.debian.org ... if this bug has been fixed
>> in newer commits on upstream guix, that would be helpful information! :)
>>
>
> Reported as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038916

Well, that got me looking in the right place!

guile-avahi is not packaged for Debian and somewhere along the way was
added as a dependency for guix, presumably for this (and possibly other)
feature(s).

At least, that is my working theory :)


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Philip McGrath]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, at 2:50 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-06-23, Philip McGrath wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:44 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>> On 2023-06-21, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>>> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>>> I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit
>>>> guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for
>>>> `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working
>>>> machine. Removing that option got things working again!
>>>
>>>> I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like
>>>> the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix
>>>> scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be
>>>> supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible
>>>> example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to
>>>> do it yourself.
>>>
>>> Yes, please file a bug at bugs.debian.org ... if this bug has been fixed
>>> in newer commits on upstream guix, that would be helpful information! :)
>>>
>>
>> Reported as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038916
>
> Well, that got me looking in the right place!
>
> guile-avahi is not packaged for Debian and somewhere along the way was
> added as a dependency for guix, presumably for this (and possibly other)
> feature(s).
>
> At least, that is my working theory :)
>

On the Guix side, it seems like either guile-avahi should be a mandatory dependency or guix-daemon should fail much more gracefully without it.

Re: Failed to autoload read-substitute-urls in (guix scripts discover)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2023-06-23, Philip McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023, at 2:50 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> On 2023-06-23, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:44 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> On 2023-06-21, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023-06-07, Philip McGrath wrote:
>>>>> I forgot earlier that I had used `sudo systemctl edit
>>>>> guix-daemon.service` to add `--discover` to the command line for
>>>>> `/usr/bin/guix-daemon` on the broken machine, but not on the working
>>>>> machine. Removing that option got things working again!
>>>>
>>>>> I think there is actually a Debian bug, though, because it looks like
>>>>> the Debian package really doesn't have code for the module `(guix
>>>>> scripts discover)`, and running with `--discover` ought to be
>>>>> supported. Vagrant, I haven't come up with a minimum reproducible
>>>>> example yet, but I can open a report now if you like, or feel free to
>>>>> do it yourself.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, please file a bug at bugs.debian.org ... if this bug has been fixed
>>>> in newer commits on upstream guix, that would be helpful information! :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Reported as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038916
>>
>> Well, that got me looking in the right place!
>>
>> guile-avahi is not packaged for Debian and somewhere along the way was
>> added as a dependency for guix, presumably for this (and possibly other)
>> feature(s).
>>
>> At least, that is my working theory :)
>>
>
> On the Guix side, it seems like either guile-avahi should be a mandatory dependency or guix-daemon should fail much more gracefully without it.

Sounds like a bug report for upstream too! :)

live well,
  vagrant

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