From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: 25444-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25444: 'guix system init' on GuixSD w/ RAID target produces "guix system: error: failed to register"
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:31:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmv31e1v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861svzj010.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:44:59 -0500")
myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
> On 01/15/2017 at 20:19 Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> On 01/14/2017 at 14:44 Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> root@g1 ~# guix system init system/g1.00.scm /mnt/md0
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> initializing operating system under '/mnt/md0'...
>>>>> copying '/gnu/store/0m0clxj69xrxb76kyh3ral8lkfb0vx8c-linux-libre-4.9.2'...
>>>>> In execvp of /usr/local/sbin/guix-register: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> The crux of the problem is this last line. It looks like the Guix
>>>> installation is broken here.
>>>>
>>>> Could you check what happened to this ‘guix-register’ command?
>>>
>>> Thanks. I did a fresh guix pull and looked for guix-register. I couldn't
>>> find it my PATH or in guix-latest. But I did find it in the globally
>>> installed guix package.
>>>
>>> Then, just to be sure things hadn't magically fixed themselves, I reproduced
>>> the crime ;-)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> copying '/gnu/store/1k2swlkbpf44d5fzgvrp5znafhw90xh7-grub-image.png'...
>>> In execvp of /usr/local/sbin/guix-register: No such file or directory
>>> guix system: error: failed to register '/gnu/store/1k2swlkbpf44d5fzgvrp5znafhw90xh7-grub-image.png' under '/mnt/md0'
>>
>> The problem is that somehow Guix is configured to look for
>> /usr/local/sbin/guix-register (this location comes from
>> guix/config.scm), but that file doesn’t exist.
>>
>> So you need to make /usr/local/sbin/guix-register a symlink to the right
>> thing, or somehow fix the installation.
>
> I was running guix built from Git checkout w/ clean working tree so I
> don't know how my system got out of whack. The symlink approach worked
> and the new system on new disks has ...
>
> which guix-register
> /run/current-system/profile/sbin/guix-register
Good, thanks for letting me know!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-14 4:30 bug#25444: 'guix system init' on GuixSD w/ RAID target produces "guix system: error: failed to register" myglc2
2017-01-14 13:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-14 17:26 ` myglc2
2017-01-15 20:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-19 1:44 ` myglc2
2017-01-19 11:31 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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