From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia Subject: bug#33360: Guix does not error pretty when filesystem is ro Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:37:23 +0100 Message-ID: <9696f448-7988-5ade-3fd7-395c80e3445d@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKlZ-00020l-7J for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:33:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKlS-0004tv-UW for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:33:08 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKlS-0004tl-QH for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:33:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKlS-0004Fb-Jn for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:33:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKkS-0001HJ-7I for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:32:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKkL-0004AU-SK for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:31:59 -0500 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:41223) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMKkF-00044q-Ay for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:31:50 -0500 Received: from cotinga.riseup.net (cotinga-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.164]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 328351A01B3 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cotinga.riseup.net with ESMTPSA id 7EA7B102D53 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:31:38 -0800 (PST) Content-Language: en-US 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: 33360@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Today I booted up my pc from standby. Qemu was running GuixSD from a cow on an USB-disk. It had remounted ro and I got weird errors from guix when trying to build. All other programs just stated the obvious: "Cannot write to bla bla - read-only filesystem." Guix of course tried to do a lot but failed of course. -- Could we add a simple check to the commands that rely on writing to the filesystem? -- Cheers Swedebugia