Hi Stefan, Stefan <stefan-g...@vodafonemail.de> skribis:
> I found the root cause of this issue: I made a typo and inadvertently did a > “./configure --localstatedir=/vaar”. Ouch. :-/ Your store database may no longer be in sync with your actual store so you may have to reinstall. You can try ‘guix gc --verify’ to get an idea of how bad the situation is. > The manual should warn that using a wrong (or omitted) --localstatedir may > destroy the guix installation and possibly the whole guix system. > > What can be done to prevent that a simple mistake like this destroys a system? ./configure warns or errors out and the manual warns in a couple of places too, but evidently it remains too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. Could you check ‘config.log’ to see what ‘configure’ said? You can see the source of this check at the bottom of ‘m4/guix.m4’. Also, why did you run guix-daemon from your checkout? This is only necessary if you’re actually hacking on the daemon, but perhaps the manual is misleading. (Hadn’t you run guix-daemon from the checkout, the problem would not have occurred, even with a wrong ‘--localstatedir’.) Thanks, Ludo’.
