Re: gnu/services/shepherd.scm:90:2: In procedure allocate-struct: Wrong type argument in position 2: 5

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:21:27PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>> Hi, All,
>>> 
>>> I use the guix git.  After not upgrade the code for quite some time
>>> (several months?), today after `git pull`, `guix environment guix`
>>> report the following error.  How to deal with it?
>>> 
>>> Backtrace:
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>>    230:29 19 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 18 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 17 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 16 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 15 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 14 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 13 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 12 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 11 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29 10 (map1 _)
>>>    230:29  9 (map1 (((gnu packages firmware)) ((gnu services)) ((gnu services shepherd)) …))
>>>    230:29  8 (map1 (((gnu services)) ((gnu services shepherd)) ((gnu services base)) (#) …))
>>>    230:17  7 (map1 (((gnu services shepherd)) ((gnu services base)) ((gnu bootloader)) # …))
>>>   2792:17  6 (resolve-interface (gnu services shepherd) #:select _ #:hide _ #:prefix _ # _ …)
>>>   2718:10  5 (_ (gnu services shepherd) _ _ #:ensure _)
>>>   2986:16  4 (try-module-autoload _ _)
>>>    2316:4  3 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 673cd50 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2987:17 ()>)
>>>   3006:22  2 (_)
>>> In unknown file:
>>>            1 (primitive-load-path "gnu/services/shepherd" #<procedure 6b514a0 at ice-9/boo…>)
>>> In gnu/services/shepherd.scm:
>>>      90:2  0 (_)
>>> 
>>> gnu/services/shepherd.scm:90:2: gnu/services/shepherd.scm:90:2: In procedure allocate-struct: Wrong type argument in position 2: 5
>>> 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Huang, Ying
>>> 
>> you're in need of a 'make clean'.  If you don't want to have to rebuild
>> everything, then 'rm -- gnu/*go gnu/s*/*go gnu/tests/*go' should take
>> care of all of the affected modules.

For the reference, there already is a "clean-go" target that
accomplishes just that, so you could run "make clean-go" the next time
you are faced with a similar error.

Maxim