About guix system init

About guix system init

[rennes]

Hello,

I am currently running 'guix system init doc/os-config-hurd.scm /guix'  
on Debian/Hurd;

Some of the things that I have observed:

* Only the directories '/gnu/store' and 'var' are populated.
* The directories: bin, etc, home, mnt, root, run and tmp are created  
but without configuration.

However, there is no error at the end of the command, is there a way to  
debug to identify which part is being omitted?


About GNU Shepherd,
  'shepherd -c  
/guix/gnu/store/naxj2x6i83bba7a2h5dmpz4sclxqifxk-shepherd.conf -l  
/home/jin/shepherd.log'
  sample:

starting services...
Service root-file-system has been started.
Service user-file-systems has been started.
failed to start service 'file-systems'
failed to start service 'file-system-/dev/pts'
failed to start service 'file-system-/dev/shm'
failed to start service 'file-system-/gnu/store'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/memory'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/devices'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb'
failed to start service 'user-processes'
Service host-name has been started.
failed to start service 'user-homes'
failed to start service 'nscd'
failed to start service 'guix-daemon'
failed to start service 'urandom-seed'
failed to start service 'syslogd'
failed to start service 'loopback'

Is it necessary to have the services started correctly to run 'guix  
system init ..' ?

Thank you

Re: About guix system init

[Chris Marusich]

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rennes <rennes@openmailbox.org> writes:

> Is it necessary to have the services started correctly to run 'guix  
> system init ..' ?

No, I don't think it's necessary.  Judging by the source code, it looks
like "guix system init" does not start any services.  The relevant bits
are in the "install" procedure in guix/scripts/system.scm.

-- 
Chris

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About guix system init

[Rene]

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Hello,

I am currently running 'guix system init doc/os-config-hurd.scm /guix' on Debian/Hurd;

Some of the things that I have observed:

* Only the directories '/gnu/store' and 'var' are populated.
* The directories: bin, etc, home, mnt, root, run and tmp are created but without configuration.

However, there is no error at the end of the command, is there a way to debug to identify which part is being omitted?

About GNU Shepherd,
'shepherd -c /guix/gnu/store/naxj2x6i83bba7a2h5dmpz4sclxqifxk-shepherd.conf -l /home/jin/shepherd.log'
sample:

starting services...
Service root-file-system has been started.
Service user-file-systems has been started.
failed to start service 'file-systems'
failed to start service 'file-system-/dev/pts'
failed to start service 'file-system-/dev/shm'
failed to start service 'file-system-/gnu/store'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/memory'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/devices'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event'
failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb'
failed to start service 'user-processes'
Service host-name has been started.
failed to start service 'user-homes'
failed to start service 'nscd'
failed to start service 'guix-daemon'
failed to start service 'urandom-seed'
failed to start service 'syslogd'
failed to start service 'loopback'

Is it necessary to have the services started correctly to run 'guix system init ..' ?

Thank you
Rene

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Re: About guix system init

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Rene,

Rene <pacoon@protonmail.com> scribes:

> I am currently running 'guix system init doc/os-config-hurd.scm /guix' on Debian/Hurd;
>
> Some of the things that I have observed:
>
> * Only the directories '/gnu/store' and 'var' are populated.
> * The directories: bin, etc, home, mnt, root, run and tmp are created but without configuration.
>
> However, there is no error at the end of the command, is there a way to debug to identify which part is being omitted?

Nothing’s omitted, this is working as expected: /bin and /etc will be
populated at activation time (i.e., when you boot the system), and of
course populating /home, /run, etc. is up to users and daemons.

> About GNU Shepherd,
> 'shepherd -c /guix/gnu/store/naxj2x6i83bba7a2h5dmpz4sclxqifxk-shepherd.conf -l /home/jin/shepherd.log'
> sample:
>
> starting services...
> Service root-file-system has been started.
> Service user-file-systems has been started.
> failed to start service 'file-systems'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/dev/pts'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/dev/shm'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/gnu/store'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/memory'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/devices'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event'
> failed to start service 'file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb'
> failed to start service 'user-processes'
> Service host-name has been started.
> failed to start service 'user-homes'
> failed to start service 'nscd'
> failed to start service 'guix-daemon'
> failed to start service 'urandom-seed'
> failed to start service 'syslogd'
> failed to start service 'loopback'
>
> Is it necessary to have the services started correctly to run 'guix system init ..' ?

No, not at all; ‘guix system init’ can even be run on a foreign distro.

BTW, notice that on GNU/Hurd the file systems above aren’t available.
So you’ll need to adjust (gnu system file-systems) to not try to mount
them.

HTH,
Ludo’.