Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Marius,
>
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> After reconfiguring a remote machine on latest 'master' (post recent
>> core-updates merge), I found that offloading to it would just "hang".
>>
>> After some debugging I found that `guile --listen` failed to import
>> (ice-9 readline).  Installing guile-readline for the offload user did
>> the trick.
>
> Could it be that ~/.guile on that machine imports (ice-9 readline)?
> (On GuixSD the default ~/.guile used to import it unconditionally.)

Ah, good catch!  This was using the default .guile from before
2ba2c98d8aa695cce608313833a36c61b0fb3428.  I have verified that copying
the new .guile from /etc/skel works even without guile-readline
installed.

It would still be good with a better failure mode, but I'll file this
under "pebkac" for now.

Thanks!