From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Nicola Barbato Subject: bug#30370: guix system init can't find guix-register Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:05:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87po5icam9.fsf@GlaDOS.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6h3-0000AA-91 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:06:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6h0-0001Js-4p for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:06:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6h0-0001Jk-1n for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:06:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6gz-0006sE-Pq for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:06:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6gH-0007wL-5x for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:05:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6gD-0000XG-8E for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:05:17 -0500 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:52130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej6gC-0000Eg-L5 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:05:12 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAB1F20E2A for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 18:05:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3zbW6R0ggHz9rxW for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 18:05:02 +0100 (CET) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 30370@debbugs.gnu.org Hello Guix, I tried to install GuixSD on a loop device (/dev/loop1) whith its main partition mounted under /mnt like this: $ guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt This failed with the following error message: Betriebssystem unter =C2=BB/mnt=C2=AB wird initialisiert =E2=80=A6 In execvp of /gnu/store/d4wwx93gqizx132zjk7h1ir7rzph0pig-guix-0.12.0-10.ba2= 260d/sbin/guix-register: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden copying to '/mnt'... guix system: error: fport_write: Daten=C3=BCbergabe unterbrochen (broken pi= pe) I run GuixSD on an x86_64 machine (commit: a3a932c008d0d9051eb8cdfdcea07ebd7b68b1b3) and the configfile is a copy of the `bare-bones.tmpl' with the target field in the bootloader-configuration changed to "/dev/loop1". Greetings Diego