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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: btrfs and subvolumes for root, take 2
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:17:33 +0100
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To: Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@gmail.com>
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Hello Fredrik,

Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@gmail.com> skribis:

> guix archive --authorize < /gnu/store/cw55zvxzi3d9cjmhfvxsryz31jxb1y6k-gu=
ix-0.15.0-1.4876bc8/share/guix/berlin.guixsd.org.pub
> guix pull --commit=3Dd9f8e84 --substitute-urls=3D"http://berlin.guixsd.or=
g http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org"
> guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt --substitute-urls=3D"http://ber=
lin.guixsd.org http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org"

The Guile backtrace you sent shows that /etc/ssl already existed when
your system booted and was not a symlink.  This led the =E2=80=9Cactivation
code=E2=80=9D of GuixSD to fail:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/build/activation.scm#=
n320

The solution is to remove /etc/ssl (is it coming from another distro
previously installed on this device?).  You can boot a separate medium,=20
mount the root partition, and =E2=80=9Crm -rf /etc/ssl=E2=80=9D from there.=
  Or you can,
at the boot REPL that you get after the backtrace, type something like:

  ,use (guix build utils)
  (delete-file-recursively "/etc/ssl")
  ,q

Note that you might have similar issues with /etc/pam.d, for instance,
if there=E2=80=99s such a stale directory.

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.