bug#54831: closed (guix home reconfigure fails with “rmdir: No such file or directory”)

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> guix home reconfigure fails with “rmdir: No such file or directory”
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> Sat, 09 Apr 2022 19:53:36 -0400
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> For the last few days, attempting to issue a home reconfigure fails:
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> $ guix home reconfigure ./guix-home/config-new.scm
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> The following derivations will be built:
>   /gnu/store/rbnri9gpvh98qagyk7ws4y5xdvz4skg7-home.drv
>   /gnu/store/hg5whdfsq2ldibfsikhbwppr9pms5vc8-provenance.drv
>   /gnu/store/rsil5s5fs14y2jvysbiv7vi2f0i3gnw2-activate.drv
>   /gnu/store/j85krrfbnc7x6s5wdn0wnp8ikah9gl46-update-symlinks.drv
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> building /gnu/store/hg5whdfsq2ldibfsikhbwppr9pms5vc8-provenance.drv...
> building /gnu/store/j85krrfbnc7x6s5wdn0wnp8ikah9gl46-update-symlinks.drv...
> building /gnu/store/rsil5s5fs14y2jvysbiv7vi2f0i3gnw2-activate.drv...
> building /gnu/store/rbnri9gpvh98qagyk7ws4y5xdvz4skg7-home.drv...
> Cleaning up symlinks from previous home at 
> /gnu/store/zmp2brsdr0nvrhpbk4kqqc6y8jx90kb1-home.
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> guix home: error: rmdir: No such file or directory
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> This fails in the same way even when using a previously working
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> $ guix home list-generations
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> Generation 27   Apr 05 2022 19:44:03    (current)
>   file name: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/bjc/guix-home-27-link
>   canonical file name: /gnu/store/zmp2brsdr0nvrhpbk4kqqc6y8jx90kb1-home
>   channels:
>     guix:
>       repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>       branch: master
>       commit: 3b3cc9dfed30afec70a6feaced3710bf79f8b2bc
>   configuration file: 
> /gnu/store/k90xv2x75nfc1wyxbw4171m6wxykqck6-configuration.scm
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> $ guix home reconfigure 
> /gnu/store/k90xv2x75nfc1wyxbw4171m6wxykqck6-configuration.scm
> Cleaning up symlinks from previous home at 
> /gnu/store/zmp2brsdr0nvrhpbk4kqqc6y8jx90kb1-home.
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> guix home: error: rmdir: No such file or directory
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> -bjc
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> Re: bug#54831: guix home reconfigure fails with “rmdir: No such file or directory”
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> Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:46:56 +0200
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> Hi all,
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> Brian Cully <bjc@spork.org> skribis:
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> > For the last few days, attempting to issue a home reconfigure fails:
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> > ---[snip]---
> > $ guix home reconfigure ./guix-home/config-new.scm
> > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 
> > 100.0%
> > The following derivations will be built:
> >   /gnu/store/rbnri9gpvh98qagyk7ws4y5xdvz4skg7-home.drv
> >   /gnu/store/hg5whdfsq2ldibfsikhbwppr9pms5vc8-provenance.drv
> >   /gnu/store/rsil5s5fs14y2jvysbiv7vi2f0i3gnw2-activate.drv
> >   /gnu/store/j85krrfbnc7x6s5wdn0wnp8ikah9gl46-update-symlinks.drv
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> > building /gnu/store/hg5whdfsq2ldibfsikhbwppr9pms5vc8-provenance.drv...
> > building /gnu/store/j85krrfbnc7x6s5wdn0wnp8ikah9gl46-update-symlinks.drv...
> > building /gnu/store/rsil5s5fs14y2jvysbiv7vi2f0i3gnw2-activate.drv...
> > building /gnu/store/rbnri9gpvh98qagyk7ws4y5xdvz4skg7-home.drv...
> > Cleaning up symlinks from previous home at 
> > /gnu/store/zmp2brsdr0nvrhpbk4kqqc6y8jx90kb1-home.
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> > guix home: error: rmdir: No such file or directory
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> Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion@gmail.com> skribis:
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> > Seems like the issue is during the deployment, as Madhavan
> > said. Specifically, the error message in that form only appears in
> > `gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm', in the function
> > `cleanup-symlinks'.
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> > It seems that, right now, the issue is that `ENOTEMPTY' and `ENOTDIR'
> > are tested for and handled, but `ENOENT' is not. Ideally, this should be
> > handled and tell the user /which/ file or directory is missing, not halt
> > the entire process. And, since we are testing for a missing file (and
> > thus have no chance of overwriting a user's data), it would probably
> > make the most sense to just create the file that is missing in the next
> > step, without stopping at all.
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> > I'll throw together a patch real quick to test with. I could be very off
> > base, but I think this should fix this issue.
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> You were right.
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> This is fixed by commit 435e1cef0025fbe6cbb71b472218e8d132d1681c, pushed
> yesterday.  The patch had been submitted as part of
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52808> but had not been applied.  Apologies
> for the breakage.
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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