From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>
Cc: 38821@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38821: Can't run guix from external drive.
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:58:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imlmfevz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200107193531.66c5936e@kompiuter> (Jan's message of "Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:35:31 +0100")
Hi,
Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> skribis:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:37:43 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> It most likely means that the current working directory,
>> /media/user/Backup, was unmounted or somehow disappeared in the
>> meantime.
>>
>> Can you confirm that this is the case?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> Yes, it only happens, if the disk is unmounted. Is that normal? If it
> is, then a message telling what's wrong would be helpful.
This issue is not specific to Guix: the ‘getcwd’ function fails if the
current working directory has been unmounted behind the back of the
calling process. IOW, another program would fail similar in these
circumstances. I don’t think there’s much that can be done.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-30 19:31 bug#38821: Can't run guix from external drive Jan
2020-01-02 18:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-07 18:35 ` Jan
2020-01-08 9:58 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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