I just tried running guix gc and restarting and can confirm that the symptoms disappeared.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 9:05 PM, Xavier Montillet wrote: > Hi Rocardo, > > I guix pull'ed and grub is no longer marked as dead. "guix gc --list-dead | > grep 0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797" now returns nothing, while "grep > unicode /boot/grub/grub.cfg" till returns the same thing. > > So I guess this means it's fixed? > > I installed with the 1.0.1 installer I think, nothing out of the ordinary, > except maybe everything being encrypted, including the /boot. > > Xavier > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Hi Xavier, >> >> > guix gc thinks that grub (and a lot of other stuff that it shouldn't >> > think is dead) is dead, as shown by the following commands (given by >> > nckx): >> > >> > >> > $ grep unicode /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> > search --file --set >> > /gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2 >> > if loadfont >> > /gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2; >> > then >> > >> > $ guix gc --list-dead | grep 0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797 >> > finding garbage collector roots... >> > determining live/dead paths... >> > /gnu/store/0fijjh7qw8ppsks0ba3q9m873ljhj797-grub-2.04 >> > >> > I was also able to reproduce the bug by running guix gc and rebooting >> > again. >> >> Oh, that’s not good. Can you still reproduce this after running “guix >> system reconfigure …”? It should create a new system generation, >> register a GC root, and update GRUB. >> >> It should not say that GRUB itself is dead and thus not free it up for >> garbage collection. >> >> Could you perhaps share something about how you installed the system (if >> it’s anything out of the ordinary)? >> >> -- >> Ricardo >> >> >
