Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists (was: Re: [outreachy] Further steps)

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

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Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 25., Cs
20:06):

> On 25/10/2018 16.55, Laura Lazzati wrote:
> >>> BTW, I was trying to run guix pull, the one installed on top of my
> >>> foreing distro - not the one in the guix environment - and I am
> >>> getting this error, don't know why, I have already run guix pull
> >>> before:
> >>> :~/guix$ guix pull
> >>> Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura'...
> >>> guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
> >>> "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura/current-guix-1-link"
> >> It seems that something is mixed up between the old and new guix pull,
> >> I hope someone can provide some more insight. Ludo?
> > Yes please, I need to fix this before going on.
> > Here is what happened, so that I provide the full information
> > After having my patch approved, I ran git pull (on master branch, of
> > course, I then created branches)
> > I wanted to check that everything was fine, so I ran:
> > :~/guix$ guix package -s "^r" | recsel -p name description| grep '\S'
> > | sort >newR.txt
> > And got the output:
> > Command 'recsel' not found, but can be installed with:
> > sudo apt install recutils
> > (which is strange, I have played with recsel before sending my
> > patches, when learning guix package command)
> > so i ran guix package -I, where recutils was effectively installed
> > However, I tried:
> > $guix package -i recutils
> > guix package: warning: Your Guix installation is 13 days old.
> > guix package: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
> > 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
> > The package was installed after those warnings, and I was asked to
> > export env variables:
> > export PATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
> > export
> INFOPATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
> > Did so, but when running again:
> > :~/guix$ guix package -s "^r" | recsel -p name description| grep '\S'
> > | sort >newR.txt
> > Got the output:
> > recsel: error: cannot read file description
> > And also got that error when running guix pull.
>
> Hi, this error happened here, too, also on a foreign distro, without any
> extra steps.
>
> ---
> Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil'...
> guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
> "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil/current-guix-1-link"
> ---
>
> At the same time, a `sudo guix pull` works fine.
>

Thanks for this finding.


>
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> Thorsten Wilms
>
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