System reconfigure error

`guix describe`

guix 19c0cdb

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

branch: master

commit: 19c0cdb9e6271956015232421ef7f63a1ad001ae

I get an error message when I do `guix system reconfigure config.scm`:

Backtrace:

In guix/ui.scm:

1654:12 19 (run-guix-command _ . _)

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

829:9 18 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f5517e709b8 at guix/ui.scm:624:2 (key c)> _)

829:9 17 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f5517e709d0 at guix/ui.scm:750:6 (key proc…> …)

In guix/scripts/system.scm:

1301:8 16 (_)

In guix/status.scm:

810:4 15 (call-with-status-report _ _)

In guix/scripts/system.scm:

1162:6 14 (process-action _ _ _)

In guix/store.scm:

1737:24 13 (run-with-store _ _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ #:target _)

In guix/scripts/system.scm:

1175:13 12 (_ _)

882:18 11 (perform-action reconfigure #<<operating-system> kernel: #<package…> …)

In gnu/system.scm:

845:19 10 (operating-system-derivation _ #:container? _)

In gnu/services.scm:

779:26 9 (loop #<<service> type: #<service-type system 1bdafa0> value: #<pro…>)

In srfi/srfi-1.scm:

592:17 8 (map1 (#<<service> type: #<service-type profile 1bdab90> value: …> …))

In gnu/services.scm:

586:32 7 (packages->profile-entry _)

In guix/profiles.scm:

338:3 6 (packages->manifest _)

In srfi/srfi-1.scm:

592:29 5 (map1 (#<package autoconf@2.69 gnu/packages/autotools.scm:45 2d0…> …))

592:29 4 (map1 (#<package automake@1.16.1 gnu/packages/autotools.scm:251 …> …))

592:17 3 (map1 (#<procedure gettext (_ #:optional _ _)> #<package texinfo…> …))

In guix/inferior.scm:

583:24 2 (inferior-package->manifest-entry #<procedure gettext (_ #:optiona…> …)

358:4 1 (inferior-package-input-field #<procedure gettext (_ #:optional _ …> …)

302:18 0 (inferior-package-field _ _)

guix/inferior.scm:302:18: In procedure inferior-package-field:

In procedure struct_vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting struct): #<

procedure gettext (_ #:optional _ _)>

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 04:11:49PM -0400, mikadoZero wrote:

Please share the contents of 'config.scm'.

Leo Famulari writes:

This is the contents of config.scm:

(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))

(use-service-modules networking ssh)

(use-package-modules autotools

certs

emacs

gettext

graphviz

man

shells

terminals

texinfo)

(operating-system

(host-name "guix")

(timezone "some-timezone")

(locale "en_US.utf8")

(bootloader (bootloader-configuration

(bootloader grub-bootloader)

(target "/dev/sda")))

(mapped-devices

(list (mapped-device

(source (uuid "some-uuid"))

(target "root")

(type luks-device-mapping))))

(file-systems (cons (file-system

(device (file-system-label "root"))

(mount-point "/")

(type "ext4")

(dependencies mapped-devices))

%base-file-systems))

(swap-devices '("/swapfile"))

(users (cons* (user-account

(name "root")

(uid 0)

(group "root")

(home-directory "/root")

(shell #~(string-append #$zsh "/bin/zsh")))

(user-account

(name "guix")

(group "users")

(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev" "audio"))

(home-directory "/home/guix")

(shell #~(string-append #$zsh "/bin/zsh")))

%base-user-accounts))

(packages (cons*

;; programs for contributing to guix

autoconf

automake

gettext

texinfo

graphviz

help2man

nss-certs

kmscon

zsh

emacs-no-x

%base-packages))

(services (cons* (service dhcp-client-service-type)

(service openssh-service-type

(openssh-configuration

(port-number 2222)))

%base-services)))

Note: some-timezone and some-uuid above are placeholders.

The gettext package is named "gnu-gettext". Modify your "packages" field.

Danny Milosavljevic writes:

Thank you. Changing "gettext" to "gnu-gettext" got it working.

In this case package search seems to be misleading. `guix package -s

gnu-gettext` returns nothing. While in the return of `guix package -s

gettext` there is a package with the name of "gettext" that talks about

gnu gettext in it's description.

Hi,

mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com> skribis:

The name that “guix package -s” shows is the package name.

‘gnu-gettext’, conversely, is the name of the variable bound to that

package.

In your config file, you can use ‘specifications->manifest’ as

documented in the manual if you’d rather avoid dealing with variables.

HTH!

Ludo’.

tags 34897 notabug

close 34897

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Thank you for pointing this out. I have reread the relevant section of

"4.2 Invoking ‘guix package’" of the manual. I have recently started

using it in user manifests. I will try using this further.

This was not a bug.

It looked like a bug to me before I received the helpful replies.