Thank you, Rutherther! I removed the directory "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/[me]/guix-profile" (this was a soft link, I only removed the link.) Then now it keeps complaining that it does not exist:
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"$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/home/fgeorges/.config/guix/current"'. 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Thank you for the help, much appreciated! -- Florent Georges H2O Consulting http://h2o.consulting/ On Mon, 1 Sept 2025 at 15:18, Rutherther <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Florent Georges <[email protected]> writes: > > > Thank you, Rutherther! I ran the following: > > > >> sudo guix gc --verify=contents,repair > > reading the store... > > checking path existence... > > checking hashes... > > So this is all? That would mean there is no corruption and then I do not > really know how the error can be occurring tbh. > > > > > I tried again "guix package -l" after, but I still get the same error. > > I would expect nothing else, since even if there was corruption, it is > not fixable as user profiles are not substitutable. > > > > > I have no idea what you mean by "you will probably have to switch to > > earlier generation, and remove the one affected by the corruption" > > Guix package uses generations, every time you > install something new generation is created. You can manage them with > `guix package` --list-generations, --delete-generations, > --switch-generations. > > > > > On the other hand, since I know exactly the list of 10-ish packages I > have > > installed using Guix, it might be easier to delete/uninstall Guix > > completely. Then install it fresh again. Any specific things to be > > careful with if I chose that path? > > This is an excessive reaction as the issue is only in your user's > profiles, so there should be no reason to get rid of guix completely. > You can just remove stuff under /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER. That > way you reset your user's profiles state. Or you should actually be able > to remove just /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix-profile*, leaving > current-guix untouched (current-guix is the profile you get from guix > pull), if you don't have problems with pull, you don't have to remove > that one. > > Nope, no specific things to be careful about, if you decide to nuke > Guix, make sure to nuke both /var/guix and /gnu/store (or if you just > use guix-install.sh --uninstall it will do it for you). As long as you > remove everything, it is fine. What would be problematic is if you left > one without the other. > > Rutherther > > > > > ju, > > > > -- > > Florent Georges > > H2O Consulting > > http://h2o.consulting/ > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 18:22, Rutherther <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi Florent, > >> > >> Florent Georges <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > After a reboot (a crash of my machine running Ubuntu, actually,) I > get an > >> > error with Guix, about an unsupported manifest format. For instance: > >> > > >> >> guix package -l > >> > Generation 1 Jul 14 2022 17:24:46 > >> > emacs 27.2 out > /gnu/store/6ahsf2ja6qyg19skggjxxpf9xx6ybxi1-emacs-27.2 > >> > > >> > Generation 2 Jul 14 2022 19:33:27 > >> > + glibc-utf8-locales 2.31 out > >> > /gnu/store/rgydar9dfvflqqz2irgh7njj34amaxc6-glibc-utf8-locales-2.31 > >> > > >> > Generation 3 Jul 14 2022 19:37:02 > >> > guix package: error: unsupported manifest format > >> > > >> > Any idea what could be wrong? > >> > >> Yes, especially if your machine crashed, this is probably a file > >> corruption. You can try running `guix gc --verify=contents,repair` > >> to find corrupted files in store and repair them if possible (they have > >> to be substitutable) > >> > >> If your profile's manifest is broken, that's unfortunate as you cannot > >> really substitute that. So you will probably have to switch to earlier > >> generation, and remove the one affected by the corruption, then you > >> should be fine. > >> > >> Rutherther > >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Florent Georges > >> > H2O Consulting > >> > http://h2o.consulting/ > >> >
