bug#23881: System building failure

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Kooda <address@hidden> skribis:

> I installed GuixSD yesterday and found a bug this morning when trying
> to build a new system generation.

[...]

>   (file-systems (cons (file-system
>                         (title 'uuid)
>                         (device (uuid "a08e57ba-6275-4e22-90e5-1d9b34ae363d"))
>                         (mount-point "/")
>                         (type "ext4"))
>                       %base-file-systems))

[...]

> Running `guix system build /etc/config.scm` fails with the following error:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 19 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1a4e980>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   63: 18 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  432: 17 [eval # #]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 2401: 16 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 1a6b940 at 
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>]
> 4050: 15 [#<procedure 1a6b940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>]
> 1724: 14 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
> 1729: 13 [#<procedure 1a82ea0 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 12 [primitive-load 
> "/gnu/store/vw26xsn24jmrijn939fjjk50m5i4hfq3-guix-0.10.0-0.e901/bin/.guix-real"]
> In guix/ui.scm:
> 1209: 11 [run-guix-command system "build" "/etc/config.scm"]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  157: 10 [catch srfi-34 #<procedure 44f2140 at guix/ui.scm:425:2 ()> ...]
>  157: 9 [catch system-error ...]
> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>  882: 8 [#<procedure 44f6f90 at guix/scripts/system.scm:874:2 ()>]
>  788: 7 [process-action build ("/etc/config.scm") ...]
> In guix/store.scm:
> 1182: 6 [run-with-store # ...]
> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>  564: 5 [#<procedure 47c8fc0 at guix/scripts/system.scm:564:2 (state)> #]
>  575: 4 [#<procedure 6d062a0 at guix/scripts/system.scm:564:2 (grub)> #]
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>  672: 3 [filter-map #<procedure system->grub-entry (system number time)> # # 
> ...]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  157: 2 [catch system-error ...]
> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>  404: 1 [#<procedure 7a37d50 at guix/scripts/system.scm:390:4 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [string-append "--root=" ...]
>
> ERROR: In procedure string-append:
> ERROR: In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #vu8(160 
> 142 87 186 98 117 78 34 144 229 29 155 52 174 54 61)

I cannot reproduce it with current master.

> The odd bytevector from the error seems to be the partition’s UUID,
> but I get the exact same error when trying to use a label instead of
> the UUID.

Yes.

Unless I’m mistaken, the problem you report was fixed in
f453f637d5410f4d1e0b3787caa8d34b9b72d7d8 in January.

Could it be that you run ‘guix pull’ as a user but not as root?
Remember that ‘guix pull’ is per-user.

Thanks,
Ludo’.