Germano Gabbianelli (2015-07-26 16:25 +0300) wrote: > On 16/07/15 15:37, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> This could be due to how you fiddled manually with /gnu/store and >> /var/guix. In general, one should never manually touch these >> directories; instead, one should use ‘guix gc’ and similar commands. > I did not fiddle with those directory. I only removed them to reinstall > guix. >>> I also trying reinstalling guix by deleting /gnu, /var/guix, and >>> /var/log/guix (and also wiping the partition with rm) >> To be safe, could you start anew again, and report back? >> >> sudo rm -rf /gnu /var/guix >> # reinstall from binary tarball > I did it, for the third time. I always get the same error: > > guix system: error: build failed: path > `/gnu/store/kv217jzyir2wx0lwwxl7ljpwc4fzafpi-grub.cfg' is not valid > > This time I used guix 0.8.3. > >>> (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda9"))) >> There’s a mistake here: it should be “/dev/sda” (say), not “/dev/sda9” >> (the latter designates a partition, whereas the former designates a >> disk.) It doesn’t matter here since you passed --no-grub, but it would >> otherwise lead to a ‘grub-install’ failure. > I tried removing that line, but if I do I get an error saying "missing > field initializers (bootloader)". > So I also tried to specify a non existent disk (i.e. /dev/sdb), so it > does not complain about the bootloader options, but I still get the > "path 'grub.cfg' is not valid" error.
I have just built your config.scm successfully. (I'm not suru but) it looks like you either have a broken store or some stale files in the partition you want to initialize the system to. Could you try the following from your Lubuntu (without 'sudo'): guix pull guix system build --no-grub /path/to/your/config.scm If the system has been built successfully (it definitely should), make sure your partition is absolutely empty (!) and init the system there: sudo -E guix system init --no-grub /path/to/your/config.scm <mount-point> -- Alex
