Re: btrfs and subvolumes for root, take 2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Fredrik,

Fredrik Salomonsson <address@hidden> skribis:

> guix archive --authorize < 
> /gnu/store/cw55zvxzi3d9cjmhfvxsryz31jxb1y6k-guix-0.15.0-1.4876bc8/share/guix/berlin.guixsd.org.pub
> guix pull --commit=d9f8e84 --substitute-urls="http://berlin.guixsd.org 
> http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org";
> guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt 
> --substitute-urls="http://berlin.guixsd.org http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org";

The Guile backtrace you sent shows that /etc/ssl already existed when
your system booted and was not a symlink.  This led the “activation
code” of GuixSD to fail:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/build/activation.scm#n320

The solution is to remove /etc/ssl (is it coming from another distro
previously installed on this device?).  You can boot a separate medium, 
mount the root partition, and “rm -rf /etc/ssl” from there.  Or you can,
at the boot REPL that you get after the backtrace, type something like:

  ,use (guix build utils)
  (delete-file-recursively "/etc/ssl")
  ,q

Note that you might have similar issues with /etc/pam.d, for instance,
if there’s such a stale directory.

HTH,
Ludo’.