bug#33368: "guix archive" fails because of guix-authenticate

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Konrad!

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

> With guix current as of today (commit
> d5401375099f6e4562b849121265bb1c3e85874f), I cannot produce nar archives
> because of a failure of guix-authenticate.
>
> Demonstration:
>
>   $ guix archive --export git > git.nar
>   guix archive: error: build failed: program `guix-authenticate' failed with 
> exit code 1

Could you strace the daemon and then re-run the command?

  sudo strace -p $(pidof guix-daemon) -f -o daemon.log -s 234
  guix archive --export sed > /dev/null

I tested and it works for me, so we’ll have to see what’s going wrong
behind the scenes.

Thanks,
Ludo’.