Hi guix, This patch improves the error message generated by "guix time-machine" and presumably "guix pull" as well when the guix derivation fails to compute. Before: something like . After: something like [...] substitute: lijst van substitutes van ?[...]? aan het bijwerken... 100.0% /gnu/store/4yx3vms0rfpzd1430za3g4pa6jvjsfw9-nowhere.tar.bz2.drv bouwen... /error: build of `/gnu/store/6s0cmkfa4hq7d9w8g08mv2rhq0cr7wqc-subversion-1.14.1.drv' failed guix time-machine: fout: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/j07lizpjf7v65shdgxyxddz171g6vjvx-compute-guix-derivation' failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "9fc551e089c25f510f918a2c52917ba4e842f1c3"; system: "x86_64-linux"; host version: "75a3413b4e5c1f7443eb944a36ff364f4c4085f4"; pull-version: 1). Please report it by email to 0 #;"1ag1hvcm9q92kgalzbbgcsq9clxnzmbj9nciz9lmabjx4lyajp9c" "0ag1hvcm9q92kgalzbbgcsq9clxnzmbj9nciz9lmabjx4lyajp9c")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) [...] and commit that mistake. Then run guix time-machine --branch=master --url=$PWD --disable-authentication Repeat without the error in subversion. Greetings, Maxime