I also see the following commented out lines in the offload script:
;; Avoid ABI incompatibility with the <build-machine> record.
;; (set! %fresh-auto-compile #t)
And this from load* in ui.scm:
;; XXX: Force a recompilation to avoid ABI issues.
(set! %fresh-auto-compile #t)
So my ABI mismatch issue might be triggering a similar issue and we need a
%fresh-auto-compile somewhere.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 22:51, Simen Endsjø wrote:
> Ok, so now it suddenly works. I cannot see any recent commits in guix which
> should indicate a change related to this.
> What kind of bad state could I have had on my system which has been fixed by
> experimenting with the local guix and pre-inst-env? And is it permanently
> fixed now? I find this both strange and worrying.
>
> $ guix offload test
> guix offload: testing 1 build machines defined in '/etc/guix/machines.scm'...
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 22:17, Simen Endsjø wrote:
>> Not sure what you mean. Tried adding the channel with -L, but I get an error
>> about a record ABI mismatch. How is this possible? Is somehow two different
>> guix channels used...?
>>
>> $ ./pre-inst-env guix system \
>> -L ~/the-locally-cloned-required-channel \
>> reconfigure the-system.scm
>>
>> guix system: error: failed to load 'the-system.scm':
>> guix/records.scm:65:4: In procedure record-abi-mismatch-error:
>> In procedure abi-check: #<record-type <guix-configuration>>: record ABI
>> mismatch; recompilation needed
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 15:35, Felix Lechner wrote:
>>> Hi Simen,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 07 2024, Simen Endsjø wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm unable to rebuild the system using this method as it looks like my
>>> > channels is not loaded
>>>
>>> Sorry about your troubles. Guix will accept -L to include local
>>> folders, which can hold a cloned Git repository. It's not convenient,
>>> but will work at least once.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Felix
>>>
>>
>
