Hi, Martin Castillo <casti...@uni-bremen.de> skribis:
>> Normally the current ‘grub.cfg’ is a GC root, which prevents the >> background image and other items from being deleted: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> $ ls -l /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 Dec 7 23:21 /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg -> >> /gnu/store/2bnr3z8q0rpvdc9zrshhyq4znx7jpzq6-grub.cfg >> $ guix gc --references /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg >> /gnu/store/i3l4cv1mz30l4jafbghmbgmafc0xb38h-grub-image.png >> /gnu/store/j5x3dfappv9fdp7h46kgm8wxjbcqv5r6-system >> /gnu/store/qkhhqqkr0lkczwqwbp95gx4s8v0pjj41-raw-initrd >> /gnu/store/xqfpwxbghvi3h85pfji6kdzw7db2sgxz-grub-2.02 >> /gnu/store/zi4awdcvrlj0fp74yb0y4ngah4qmcri0-linux-libre-4.14.4 >> $ sudo diff /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> $ echo $? >> 0 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- [...] > Like I said, I cannot reproduce currently. guix gc --list-dead doesn't > mention grub files anymore. > > below you see what I wrote while doing stuff. it starts with a missing > bootcfg, then doing stuff and at '--- end' I start again with a bootcfg. > > --- start missing bootcfg > > $ ls /var/guix/gcroots > auto/ booted-system current-system profiles > > I don't have bootcfg in there. Under what circumstances did you have a system without /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg? > # guix system switch-generation 14 > substitute: updating list of substitutes from > 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'... 100.0% > substitute: updating list of substitutes from > 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% > The following derivation will be built: > /gnu/store/31bxx2nwp3lxzdkcy8bmybabfl1pi0af-grub.cfg.drv > Von Generation »10« zu »14« gewechselt > $ diff /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg > ## no-output, grub.cfg has still the same content-> > /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg changed > # guix system reconfigure confs/config.scm > ## mentions expected grub error > $ diff /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg > see diff [2] > > it does not seem to update /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg. > and bootcfg somehow lists the generation number in the default entry. Are you saying that ‘guix system switch-generation’ does not update the target of the /var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg symlink? (From a quick look at the code it seems to update it.) Thanks, Ludo’.
