Re: Fail to configure home-directory

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Oops, that’s a bug that should be fixed now:
>>
>>   
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=82b71ac366ef154400653d264b46b7aa3520f393
>
> It works, thanks!
>
>>> Furthermore, I cannot mount a filesystem as /home:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> (file-system
>>>   (device "home")
>>>   (title 'label)
>>>   (mount-point "/home")
>>>   (type "ext4"))
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Running `guix system reconfigure' hangs after the `usermod...' changes.
>>> Not sure about how to print more debug details.
>>
>> Does /var/log/messages or /var/log/shepherd.log have more info?
>
> /var/log/shepherd.log does not log anything from the `guix system
> reconfigure...`.

What about /var/log/messages?

> I've managed to work around the issue:
>
> - Moving the mount point of "LABEL=home" from /mnt to /foo did not work.
>
> - After a failure, all subsequent `guix system reconfigure` fail, even
>   the original, working configuration.
>   
> - After a fresh system boot, commenting out the filesystem configuration
>   of LABEL=home works.  I rebooted after that.  From then, I re-added
>   the entry for LABEL=home with the new mount point /home.  It worked
>   after a reboot.
>
> Something is fishiy...

Hmm…

Ludo’.