Re: [outreachy] Further steps

[Laura Lazzati]

I have another update on this:

I even restored to a snapshot even before cloning guix at all (I only
had it installed).
I ran guix --version, got:
guix 0.15.0... (not pointing to any commit).
guix pull -l
no output, it was clean.
Also which guix did not show the path that had the "current" in it
(/usr/local/bin), but there I am still finding a symlink to
guix -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix*

guix pull --fallback
(waited all day long...)

exported the new PATH variable

Same error when running:
guix pull -l
Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura'...
guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura/current-guix-1-link"

guix --version:
guix (GNU Guix) 2e2b8635b99167554bc51a9d1067c808bcb63d37


On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:31 AM Laura Lazzati
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:00 AM Laura Lazzati
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 2:59 AM Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Laura,
> > >
> > > > BTW, I was trying to run guix pull, the one installed on top of my
> > > > foreing distro - not the one in the guix environment - and I am
> > > > getting this error, don't know why, I have already run guix pull
> > > > before:
> > > > :~/guix$ guix pull
> > > > Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura'...
> > > > guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
> > > > "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura/current-guix-1-link"
> > >
> > > Could you please tell us what “guix --version” says?  This might make it
> > > easier for us to tell you how to get around this problem.
> >
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > >
> > > There was a recent change to the storage location of the profile used by
> > > “guix pull”.  It would previously be stored in the home directory and
> > > has now been changed to be stored where other profiles are stored.
> > Yes, I've been struggling a lot, all day long yesterday.
> >
> > Maybe all the steps shed some light
> >  I say one commit with:
> > $git log | grep -C 10 pull: |  less
> >
> > commit aa227b3be3d7728331a08dbd139c47c9b271dc23
> > Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
> > Date:   Fri Oct 12 16:43:18 2018 +0200
> >
> >     pull: Fix target of /var/guix/profiles/per-user/USER/current-guix.
> >
> >     This is a followup to 8155a209071f981fbf359975f463be4bcf8fa23e.
> >
> >     * guix/scripts/pull.scm (migrate-generations): Compute the right target
> >     for /var/guix/profiles/per-user/USER/current-guix.  Previously we'd
> >     return "current-N-link" instead of "current-guix-N-link'.
> >
> > I removed the current path from PATH, and my guix pull -l was pointing
> > at the commit from where my clone date was:
> > $guix pull -l
> > Generation 1    oct 25 2018 14:34:43    (current)
> >   guix 84f6a99
> >     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >     branch: origin/master
> >     commit: 84f6a9907b91a1a2fdb5fe3fc4bab177b8734f95
> >
> > and which guix showed
> > /user/local/bin/guix
> >
> > but when guix pulling I was getting the same error, and strangely my
> > git HEAD was ponting at that commit, even after doing git pull and
> > having later commits shown with git log, not in chronogical order
> > (commit 84f6a9907b91a1a2fdb5fe3fc4bab177b8734f95)
> >
> > It worked with sudo, as Thorsten Wilms mentioned (ran sudo guix pull)
> > I have just checked that:
> > $sudo guix pull  -l
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales'
> > package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
> >
> >      guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
> >      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
> >
> > See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
> >
> >
> > Generation 1    Oct 17 2018 12:32:20
> >   guix c4d6244
> >     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >     branch: origin/master
> >     commit: c4d62443eb50a615d47b590a7fedcc7f7f0ec100
> >
> > Generation 2    Oct 25 2018 17:39:44
> >   guix 84f6a99
> >     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >     branch: origin/master
> >     commit: 84f6a9907b91a1a2fdb5fe3fc4bab177b8734f95
> >
> > Generation 3    Oct 26 2018 00:18:32    (current)
> >   guix 21c51eb
> >     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >     branch: origin/master
> >     commit: 21c51ebd66faa0b47f0be223d97c3a371346f54b
> > but guix pull (without sudo), however, it shows the same error:
> > $guix pull
> > Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura'...
> > guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
> > "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura/current-guix-1-link"
> >
> > However, my current version:
> > $guix --version
> > guix (GNU Guix) 21c51ebd66faa0b47f0be223d97c3a371346f54b
> > Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> >
> > and checked:
> >  $cd /usr/local/bin
> >  $ll | grep guix
> > which happens to show
> >  guix -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix*
> > (I see that it point to root, not my user, I guess that because of sudo)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> Sorry, I have restored to the point in which I cloned the repo (and
> had not worked yet on branch master):
> which guix
> /home/laura/.config/guix/current/bin/guix
>
> guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) c4d62443eb50a615d47b590a7fedcc7f7f0ec100
> Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> git pulled
>
> But the same error with guix pull
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > The error message seems to say that a migration to the new location had
> > > already happened, so it shouldn’t attempt to do this again.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ricardo
> > >
> > Regards!
> > Laura