bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Stefan, Stefan skribis: > That doesn’t seem to be so bad. :-) Heh, good. >> ./configure warns or errors out and the manual warns in a couple of >> places too, but evidently it remains too easy to shoot oneself in the >> foot. > > It warns in the chapter “2 Requirements”. It doesn’t warn in

bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-20 Thread Stefan
Hi Ludo’! > Your store database may no longer be in sync with your actual store so > you may have to reinstall. You can try ‘guix gc --verify’ to get an > idea of how bad the situation is. stefan@guix ~/development/guix$ guix gc --verify reading the store... checking path existence... path `/gnu

bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Stefan, Stefan skribis: > I found the root cause of this issue: I made a typo and inadvertently did a > “./configure --localstatedir=/vaar”. Ouch. :-/ Your store database may no longer be in sync with your actual store so you may have to reinstall. You can try ‘guix gc --verify’ to get a

bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-19 Thread Stefan
Hi! I found the root cause of this issue: I made a typo and inadvertently did a “./configure --localstatedir=/vaar”. The manual should warn that using a wrong (or omitted) --localstatedir may destroy the guix installation and possibly the whole guix system. What can be done to prevent that a s

bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-19 Thread Stefan Kuhr
Hi! I didn’t look close enough before or didn’t wait long enough, but booting the previous system failed, actually. I now tried to boot some more system generations and even the oldest one: None of my previous system generations is booting any longer. The system is bricked. Bye Stefan

bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-19 Thread Stefan
Hi! I resolved the problem by copying gnu/store/cb88z63hyg1icd2kkahiink2p291mhr2-glibc-2.31 from https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.2.0rc2.aarch64-linux.tar.xz into gnu/store on the NFS server. The system is running again. Now I retried my commands and I am able to reproduce the prob

bug#44735: gilbc of the running system got wiped while building a package, system broken

2020-11-19 Thread Stefan
Hi! After trying to just build a package (with a modified guix, but this is certainly unrelated), the system broke catastrophically: stefan@guix ~/development/guix$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild & stefan@guix ~/development/guix$ /home/stefan/development/guix/p