bug#28144: info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils)

[swedebugia]

On 2019-01-29 22:14, swedebugia wrote:
> Hi Brant
>
> I moved your reply below. Please avoid top posting.
>
> On 2019-01-28 23:04, Brant Gardner wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, at 12:57, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > >
>
> snip
>
> > > Could you please tell us what “guix describe” and/or “guix --version”
> > > say?  This would help us figure out if we can do something to prevent
> > > this.
> > >
> > > You can get out of this problem by using a different variant of Guix to
> > > run “guix pull”, e.g. ~/.config/guix/current-1-link/bin/guix pull.
> > As normal user:
> >
> > ~ % guix describe
> > guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
> >
> > ~ % guix --version
> > guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0-8.7ba2b27
> > 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.
> >
> > -----
> >
> > Root gets very different answers, as you already pointed out I should 
> > expect:
> >
> > address@hidden ~# guix describe
> > Generation 3    Jan 27 2019 07:33:28    (current)
> >    guix 4f8be6d
> >      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >      branch: master
> >      commit: 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
> >
> > address@hidden ~# guix --version
> > guix (GNU Guix) 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
> > Copyright (C) 2019 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.
> >
> >
> > The path you indicated doesn't exist for me, can I use root's path to 
> > the guix executable to perform the pull and fix the normal user?
>
> Yes if you make sure it and all directories above it is readable by the 
> normal user.

Also see this by fredrick in guix-help:
"I didn't have ~/.config/guix/current-1-link/bin/guix, so I ran
/var/guix/profiles/system-1-link/profile/bin/guix pull. That solved the
issue and I can now run "guix pull" and "guix environment guix"
again. Haven't tried "guix package -u" but I would assume that works as
well."

HTH

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Swedebugia