I think this was a problem in my installed version of shepherd. The shepherd socket vanished after system reconfiguring, and guix deploy was unable to talk to it. I worked around as follows: I did a reconfigure on the machine, upgrading to a newer version of shepherd, and rebooted. Thereafter, I was able to guix deploy to the machine.
- bug#78101: guix deploy fails with "In procedure map: Wrong... Arun Isaac
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