Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-18 Thread c4droid
Thorsten Wilms writes: > Hi! It seems every few weeks i’m thrown into a initramfs prompt, as > root got mounted read-only. The way out is always running fsck, which > reports errors and offers fixes that I either can’t map to anything, or > that refer to paths that belong to guix. Usually only b

Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 18 May 2021 11:20:41 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > I would still like to have a minimal invasive way to get beyond: > > ``` > > guix pull: error: Git error: invalid data in index - incorrect > > header > > signature > > ``` > > Try erasing the git cache at ~/.cache/guix/checkouts firs

Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Thorsten Wilms writes: It does however claim that all except one power cylce has been an unsafe shutdown, even though I had only a few hard resets and usually shutdown by issuing `poweroff`. That’s worrying. “unsafe shutdown” leads to file system corruption, and Guix doesn’t like that a

Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Thorsten Wilms writes: > On Mon, 17 May 2021 22:23:03 -0400 > Joshua Branson wrote: > >> Is ubuntu causing this issue? Why are you seeing an initramfs prompt >> every few weeks? If you are running guix on ubuntu...that seems like >> it's ubuntu's fault. Though I'm probably way wrong. > > If t

Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 18 May 2021 10:30:03 +0800 c4droid wrote: > I was install guix on a ubuntu server and work right, can you > reproduce you guix installation process? maybe the fault happen in > install guix process. Thanks, but this has been a working guix installation, so I very much doubt something wen

Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 17 May 2021 22:23:03 -0400 Joshua Branson wrote: > Is ubuntu causing this issue? Why are you seeing an initramfs prompt > every few weeks? If you are running guix on ubuntu...that seems like > it's ubuntu's fault. Though I'm probably way wrong. If there are filesystem errors on boot,

Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

2021-05-17 Thread Joshua Branson
Thorsten Wilms writes: > Hi! It seems every few weeks i’m thrown into a initramfs prompt, as > root got mounted read-only. The way out is always running fsck, which > reports errors and offers fixes that I either can’t map to anything, or > that refer to paths that belong to guix. Usually only be