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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: bug#29881: guix system reconfigure fails if config.scm contains LUKS
	mapped-devices
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:33:15 -0500
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 29881@debbugs.gnu.org, Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:
>
>> When running `guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm' as root I get the
>> following error:
>>
>> guix system: error: failed to load '/etc/config.scm':
>> /etc/config.scm:24:9: /etc/config.scm:24:9: In procedure allocate-struct=
: Wrong type argument in position 2: 3
>
> I=E2=80=99m afraid you=E2=80=99ll have to =E2=80=9Crm -rf ~/.cache/guile/=
ccache=E2=80=9D (Guile=E2=80=99s
> auto-compilation cache) to work around
> e2721a05e7d778bdf845b7cb7a42fd9f76095b69.

FYI, I also encountered the same issue recently, and indeed I needed to
clear the auto-compilation cache for my system configuration file, for
both my normal user and root.

It makes me wonder if "guix system" should force a fresh compilation of
that file by default.

       Mark