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[80.187.113.255]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id vg8-20020a170907d30800b008c76facbbf7sm2853596ejc.171.2023.03.15.11.25.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:25:51 -0700 (PDT) References: <867cvv2m5y.fsf@burningswell.com> <86356j2krm.fsf@burningswell.com> <87mt4rw1fn.fsf@nckx> <86sfec39nm.fsf@burningswell.com> <86o7ov6t01.fsf@burningswell.com> User-agent: mu4e 1.8.13; emacs 29.0.60 From: Roman Scherer To: Efraim Flashner Cc: Felix Lechner , Tobias Geerinckx-Rice , help-guix@gnu.org Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:22:20 +0100 In-reply-to: Message-ID: <87h6ul98io.fsf@burningswell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Received-SPF: none client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::536; envelope-from=roman.scherer@burningswell.com; helo=mail-ed1-x536.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 7D22E275F1 X-Spam-Score: -13.75 X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -13.75 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-TUID: 3IaiUYrpkGAJ --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Good to know about that unspoken rule. :) Should we do something about that? I thought about adding a note to the manual. Or even not allowing the user to re-configure in such a case? WDYT? Efraim Flashner writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:16:52PM +0100, Roman Scherer wrote: >> >> Felix, I'm back on track! I found what triggered this horrible problem :) >> >> At some point I added the qemu-binfmt-service-type to my system. I >> copied a snipped from the manual and finally "adjusted" it to this: >> >> ``` >> (define %qemu-service >> (service qemu-binfmt-service-type >> (qemu-binfmt-configuration >> (platforms (lookup-qemu-platforms "aarch64" "x86_64"))))) >> ``` >> >> I don't know much about quem and I thought, well let's choose the >> "aarch64" and "x86_64" qemu platforms on which I run Guix, and maybe >> re-use this service on multiple machines. >> >> My Guix system runs on the aarch64 architecture. It turns out that >> having "aarch64" in lookup-qemu-platforms causes the "Too many levels of >> symbolic links" error. As soon as I remove it, everything is good again. >> >> Now, maybe it does not even makes sense to add "aarch64" to that list, >> but I think it should not fail that catastrophical. I still don't know >> which symlink was causing this issue, though. >> >> That's where I am. Just happy that I survived my first serious Guix >> crash. :) >> >> Thanks for your help so far, >> >> Roman > > I'm surprised that it worked for you. One of the unspoken rules of qemu > binfmt emulation is you don't emulate your own hardware. I'm also > surprised because in the past I tried to enable binfmt emulation on my > pinebook pro and the qemu-binfmt-service-type was the difference between > booting and not booting. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFTBAEBCAA9FiEE0iajOdjfRIFd3gygPdpSUn0qwZkFAmQSDZ8fHHJvbWFuLnNj aGVyZXJAYnVybmluZ3N3ZWxsLmNvbQAKCRA92lJSfSrBmYwACACeY+xwY9p6eVe5 +aWWz7FV9EHStmxDj5u4TZHNG0ijlkflMBqlrnsq/8Y0nsmwG97e/drekGiExFES NGWw6cfo/sftNXN1c9q677tINd4P6YfVGgSkSknPQRbD/AwsW7Lb6MK+aZZYHLp9 9oia8DdMsgEfmlcf5+BAwHcQ8v1tqOO8HaDSHIDvxjBylxfwCa/7EnMqdtuR8tyA 5pCB+EJGPJ0e+2uIwklI91uIeEv5oWKTlbHXCV8lEcVRDHFequMIY7d2YJvJCQzK 7fOH5dx2IxvSEkE1P9eViKG39Rjyr06PuWwR+0Qtu46WcfI/YDXX4JCt/IhmzqYA wqOqu1P0 =3NNn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--