Re: Fail to configure home-directory

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>> 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?
>
> Sorry, I forgot about that one.  Starting at 18:42:53:
>
>       Apr  1 18:26:14 localhost -- MARK --
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost nscd: 329 monitored file `/etc/hosts` was 
> deleted, removing watch
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost nscd: 329 monitored file `/etc/hosts` was 
> created, adding watch
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost nscd: 329 monitored file `/etc/services` was 
> deleted, removing watch
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost nscd: 329 monitored file `/etc/services` was 
> created, adding watch
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost NetworkManager[369]: <info>  
> [1522588373.7196] settings: hostname changed from (none) to "mimimi"
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Removing service 'user-homes'... 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Done. 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Removing service 'term-auto'... 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Done. 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Evaluating user expression 
> (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") ?). 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: GNU Guile 2.2.3 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free 
> Software Foundation, Inc. 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO 
> WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: This program is free software, 
> and you are welcome to redistribute it 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: under certain conditions; type 
> `,show c' for  
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: details. 
>       Apr  1 18:42:53 localhost shepherd[1]: Enter `,help' for help. 

OK, this is an instance of an old bug that needs to be fixed:
<https://bugs.gnu.org/23697>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.