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bug#25444: 'guix system init' on GuixSD w/ RAID target produces "guix sy
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myglc2 |
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bug#25444: 'guix system init' on GuixSD w/ RAID target produces "guix system: error: failed to register" |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:44:59 -0500 |
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On 01/15/2017 at 20:19 Ludovic Courtès writes:
> myglc2 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On 01/14/2017 at 14:44 Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> myglc2 <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> address@hidden ~# guix system init system/g1.00.scm /mnt/md0
>>>> [...]
>>>> initializing operating system under '/mnt/md0'...
>>>> copying
>>>> '/gnu/store/0m0clxj69xrxb76kyh3ral8lkfb0vx8c-linux-libre-4.9.2'...
>>>> In execvp of /usr/local/sbin/guix-register: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> The crux of the problem is this last line. It looks like the Guix
>>> installation is broken here.
>>>
>>> Could you check what happened to this ‘guix-register’ command?
>>
>> Thanks. I did a fresh guix pull and looked for guix-register. I couldn't
>> find it my PATH or in guix-latest. But I did find it in the globally
>> installed guix package.
>>
>> Then, just to be sure things hadn't magically fixed themselves, I reproduced
>> the crime ;-)
>
> [...]
>
>> copying '/gnu/store/1k2swlkbpf44d5fzgvrp5znafhw90xh7-grub-image.png'...
>> In execvp of /usr/local/sbin/guix-register: No such file or directory
>> guix system: error: failed to register
>> '/gnu/store/1k2swlkbpf44d5fzgvrp5znafhw90xh7-grub-image.png' under '/mnt/md0'
>
> The problem is that somehow Guix is configured to look for
> /usr/local/sbin/guix-register (this location comes from
> guix/config.scm), but that file doesn’t exist.
>
> So you need to make /usr/local/sbin/guix-register a symlink to the right
> thing, or somehow fix the installation.
I was running guix built from Git checkout w/ clean working tree so I
don't know how my system got out of whack. The symlink approach worked
and the new system on new disks has ...
which guix-register
/run/current-system/profile/sbin/guix-register
... YEAH!! Happy camper George ;-)