Howdy Alex, I just noticed that ‘M-x guix-system-generations’ followed by ‘i’ doesn’t correctly handle UUID objects in the ‘root-device’ or ‘store-device’ fields. Here’s the backtrace:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#") read("(((id . 42) (number . 42) (prev-number . 41) (current . t) (file-name . \"/var/guix/profiles/system-42-link\") (time . 1507101359) (label . \"GNU with Linux-Libre 4.13.4 (beta)\") (root-device . #<<uuid> type: dce bv: #vu8(210 86 …)>) (store-device . #<<uuid> type: dce bv: #vu8(210 86 …)>) (store-mount-point . \"/\") (bootloader . grub-efi) (kernel . \"/gnu/store/sm1xr358drdflv6fz3ii6g0rcmk5fsv7-linux-libre-4.13.4/bzImage\")))") guix-geiser-eval-read("(system-generation-sexps \"/var/guix/profiles/system\" 'id '(42) '(kernel number id label prev-number current number-of-packages file-name time bootloader root-device store-device store-mount-point kernel-arguments kernel-config shepherd-config))" #<buffer *Guix Internal REPL*>) guix-eval-read("(system-generation-sexps \"/var/guix/profiles/system\" 'id '(42) '(kernel number id label prev-number current number-of-packages file-name time bootloader root-device store-device store-mount-point kernel-arguments kernel-config shepherd-config))") guix-generation-get-entries(system-generation-sexps "/var/guix/profiles/system" id (42) (kernel number id label prev-number current number-of-packages file-name time bootloader root-device store-device store-mount-point kernel-arguments kernel-config shepherd-config)) guix-system-generation-get-entries("/var/guix/profiles/system" id (42) (number id label prev-number current number-of-packages file-name time bootloader root-device store-device store-mount-point kernel-arguments kernel-config shepherd-config)) guix-system-generation-info-get-entries("/var/guix/profiles/system" id 42) apply(guix-system-generation-info-get-entries ("/var/guix/profiles/system" id 42)) bui-get-entries(guix-system-generation info ("/var/guix/profiles/system" id 42)) bui-get-display-entries(guix-system-generation info ("/var/guix/profiles/system" id 42) add) guix-ui-list-describe(42) apply(guix-ui-list-describe 42) bui-list-describe(general) funcall-interactively(bui-list-describe general) call-interactively(bui-list-describe nil nil) command-execute(bui-list-describe) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I wonder if this was already the case before the introduction of <uuid> objects in commit 9b336338cdc0e46a3bf7a2913c2f61cd2410c4d6, when UUIDs were referred to as bytevectors. Thoughts? Ludo’.