Marius Bakke transcribed 1.6K bytes: > Hello! > > When changing display manager in the system configuration and invoking > `guix system reconfigure`, the existing desktop environment will be > killed. If you invoked the command from within said desktop environment, > the reconfigure command will be forcefully terminated. > > If you're unlucky, this might happen during `grub-install`. After > logging in on a console and rebooting, this is what I got: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Welcome to GRUB! > > Attempting to decrypt master key... > Enter passphrase for hd1,gpt2 (): > Slot 0 opened > error: file `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod' not found. > Entering rescue mode... > grub rescue> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > It can be recovered by booting by copying /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/* from a > healthy system to the partially installed one. > > I'm not sure how to mitigate this, since the DE restart is arguably a > feature. A command analogous to `nixos-rebuild boot` might be of aid for > those of us aware of this problem. This is weird. I was aware of this and simply waited a reasonable long time until I forced a reboot from such a system. I've done this countless times in the past and it always worked. But the situation is unfortunate and a fix would be good. -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org