On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:31:57PM +0000, Phil wrote: > Thanks Leo - indeed it was so suprising that I thought it was referring > to the root of the chroot used to build rather than just the root of > Ubuntu. > > This was a bad assumption on my behalf as /homeless-shelter really did > exist at my filesystem root (containing a single .config directory with > 2 yamls in it related to the python dask package). > > I moved the directory and everything is back to normal. > > Even stranger the datestamp on the homeless shelter was from November > 2021, so why it decided to start fail yesterday I have no idea. > > Thanks again and sorry for the daft question - if I'd literally followed > the advice in the error message I'd have resolved it myself! Way too > much overthinking on my behalf!
It's not daft! The situation is really surprising. The only good explanation I can think of is that guix-daemon was used the the "--disable-chroot" option. Do you remember if you used that option?
