Re: guix pull: error: getting attributes of path: No such file or directory

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 06:52:37PM -0500, Nathan Dehnel wrote:
> I seem to have fixed it by running guix gc -D on a bunch of objects in
> /gnu/store.

Huh, okay, we are glad it's working now.

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:59 PM Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I installed guix on gentoo with this
> > https://github.com/trofi/nix-guix-gentoo and ran guix pull, and I got
> > this error:
> >
> > ;;; note: source file /usr/share/guile/site/2.2/json.scm
> > ;;;       newer than compiled /usr/lib64/guile/2.2/site-ccache/json.go
> > ;;; note: source file /usr/share/guile/site/2.2/json.scm
> > ;;;       newer than compiled /usr/lib64/guile/2.2/site-ccache/json.go
> > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
> > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> > Building from this channel:
> >   guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git    16ef7b4
> > guix pull: error: getting attributes of path
> > `/gnu/store/1f2frr4fcdb8gib7x3akr6vz3562g73v-i18n.scm': No such file
> > or directory
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this?

It's harder to debug installations of Guix that are created with methods
besides those described here:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html

Typically Guix does not use anything from /usr. I don't know what this
overlay does but you may want to ask its author for advice.