From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing the system from another distro
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:57:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wq6jv3nx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhn0zf9c.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:21:03 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-24 20:21 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Hello, I've tried to install the Guix system from my current system
>> ("Arch Linux") where I use the Guix package manager:
>>
>> ./pre-inst-env guix system init /path/to/my-os-config.scm /mnt/guix
>
> That should definitely work: it’s the same command that one runs from
> the installation image, nothing special.
>
>> Unfortunately it failed (os-config and the backtrace are attached).
>
> [...]
>
>> In gnu/system.scm:
>> 702: 3 [#<procedure 9781150 at gnu/system.scm:702:2 (store)> #]
>> 449: 2 [#<procedure 9781168 at gnu/system.scm:449:2 (store)> #]
>> 455: 1 [#<procedure 8fd76e0 at gnu/system.scm:449:2 (services)> (# # # # ...)]
>> In unknown file:
>> ?: 0 [concatenate (() () () () () () () () () ...)]
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure concatenate:
>> ERROR: In procedure append: Wrong type argument in position 19 (expecting empty list): #f
>
> Believe it or not ;-), I cannot reproduce this bug.
>
> I tried with the very same configuration on current ‘master’:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix system init alex.scm $PWD/t/
> La jena derivo estos esti konstruata:
> /gnu/store/h141fwh5mcjn6zq5192ff12hrxb9x9nn-system.drv
> /gnu/store/w18dn1ilngzip9yb9bk8dc34igidihsn-grub.cfg.drv
> /gnu/store/8p0m7kj666r0hv56r4b3a38556h1b8wf-dmd.conf.drv
> /gnu/store/0hdpjmmvgby0i194wf3hjs56nfn511sd-activate.drv
> /gnu/store/x2m84jd8w2x17ikq6qslb5argkg71bas-boot.drv
> /gnu/store/53320875lhrp11bvdjg47r2sqs3x32sz-linux-modules.drv
> /gnu/store/8j8z5nm2xkzjrr4mh7hf17dcvsxrxrjn-init.drv
>
> [...]
>
> /gnu/store/2bjpb39finn5rw006rrh4xxcqbzdij94-system
> /gnu/store/a3k9dx6i1w44qff2n9s99xlx2rlsmwq8-grub-2.00
> /gnu/store/sjcj2k78qalfzm799b06hf6hixh8mfwv-grub.cfg
>
> ni ekigas la operaci-sistemon sub '/home/ludo/src/guix/t/'...
> copying '/gnu/store/64sqqj8pbhff0w80x0gbliqirkcimy1k-glibc-2.20-locales'...
> copying '/gnu/store/4k20pkxgvfc22wpcvh6xr26ma4b619ad-glibc-2.20'...
>
> [...]
>
> Then I ran out of space on that partition, and the command wasn’t
> running as root, so it would have failed to install GRUB anyway.
>
> The backtrace you should suggests things failed before even files were
> copied to the store under /mnt/guix, right?
Yes, it failed before “La jena derivo estos esti konstruata:” message :-)
> Could it be an ABI issue that vanishes after “make clean-go && make”?
That's it! It was very unexpected for me as I did "make clean-go" not so
long ago, but anyway it works now. Thank you very much for such a
verbose answer and even testing (!)
I have another question. I used "--no-grub" option, so I don't have a
proper grub.cfg. I expected to see “/boot” directory with symlinks to
the linux and initram images but there is no such dir. Do I understand
it right that “/gnu/store/…-linux-libre-3.17.4/bzImage” and
“/gnu/store/…-base-initrd/initrd” are hardcoded in the "grub.cfg"?
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-25 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-24 13:43 Installing the system from another distro Alex Kost
2014-11-24 17:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-25 12:57 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2014-11-25 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-26 20:25 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-26 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-29 21:00 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-29 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87wq6jv3nx.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=alezost@gmail.com \
--cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=ludo@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.