Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0

[Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>]

Leo Famulari writes:
>> The output of `guix describe`:
>> ```
>> guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
>> hint: Perhaps this `guix' command was not obtained with `guix pull'? Its version string is 1.2.0rc2-1.0d4b1af.
>> ```
>
> This isn't quite right.
>
> It's expected that, before the first `guix pull`, the origin is not
> known. The per-user view of Guix, with provenance tracking, is created
> on the first `guix pull`.
>
> However, the version string should be 1.2.0.  Something has gone wrong
> on your system and caused you to "go back in time" to an earlier
> release, the second release candidate of the 1.2.0 release.

The steps I did after the install:

1) ping a website
2) guix pull (fails)
3) reconfigure system
4) guix describe

I think it is step 3 which caused the rollback to the release
candidate.  I even received a warning that running a reconfigure before
running `guix pull` could downgrade the system.