Re: guix build gives `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:50:42PM +0000, Phil Beadling wrote:
> As of last night my Guix installation (on Ubuntu) is giving the following
> error when trying to fetch a URL as part of the 'guix build'.  The error
> does not happen when downloading the same package using 'guix download':
> 
> *guix build: error: directory `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it *
> 
> It seems to make no difference what the package or or where the URL is
> fetched from, I can demonstrate it with any arbitrary file on any website
> I've tried so far.
> 
> However, if I use 'guix download' I am able to download the package, and
> then 'guix build' works as planned, using the copy stored by 'guix
> download'.
> 
> Can anyone point to where I might look to delete the homeless-shelter - or
> if this is perhaps a misleading error message?

So, does /homeless-shelter exist on your filesystem?

For example:

$ ls -l /homeless-shelter
ls: cannot access '/homeless-shelter': No such file or directory

If it does, that's surprising.