Hi Ludo and Chris, > Could it be that those old systems were talking to hydra.gnu.org and > thus not getting any substitutes? > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-guix/2019-06/msg00001.html
That's what happened to me on my oldest Guix installation (hosted on Ubuntu). I had done regular pulls on my user account, but not on the root account, meaning that I was running an ancient daemon that tried to connect to hydra. Fix (reconstructed from memory!): on the root account, do guix pull –substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org guix package update and reboot. Cheers, Konrad.