Leo Famulari writes: >> The output of `guix describe`: >> ``` >> guix describe: error: failed to determine origin >> hint: Perhaps this `guix' command was not obtained with `guix pull'? Its >> version string is 1.2.0rc2-1.0d4b1af. >> ``` > > This isn't quite right. > > It's expected that, before the first `guix pull`, the origin is not > known. The per-user view of Guix, with provenance tracking, is created > on the first `guix pull`. > > However, the version string should be 1.2.0. Something has gone wrong > on your system and caused you to "go back in time" to an earlier > release, the second release candidate of the 1.2.0 release.
The steps I did after the install: 1) ping a website 2) guix pull (fails) 3) reconfigure system 4) guix describe I think it is step 3 which caused the rollback to the release candidate. I even received a warning that running a reconfigure before running `guix pull` could downgrade the system.
