bug#35908: guix describe: error: failed to determine origin (and possibly failed upgrades)

[Marius Bakke]

Hi Pronaip,

Pronaip <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been getting this error ever since I first installed Guix on Arch, but I 
> have no idea why. I've ran guix pull and guix package -u both as root and as 
> my own user several times since then but this error hasn't gone away.
>
> Also I noticed that some functionality that works on my GuixSD install (like 
> the `guix search` command) is simply nonexistent.
>
> For obvious reasons I have no idea what version I'm on but I've run guix pull 
> sometime in the last 48 hours and I originally installed it about a month or 
> two before 1.0 came out. I also had some failed attempts at installing the 
> AUR version but I don't know if that affected the later version that I 
> installed straight from the offical script.

It sounds like ~/.config/guix/current/bin is missing from PATH.  See
'4.6 Invoking guix pull' in the manual.

Make sure that directory appears first in $PATH in order to get the
correct 'guix' executable.

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