Brian Zwahr wrote 4 years ago
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
65N7RQ.W0VO8QJ1XR662@echosa.net
Hi! It was suggested I email this in by someone in the IRC channel. I'm
having an issue where guix always tells me it is "X days old" and that
I should run guix pull/guix upgrade. However, running these commands
does not fix the issue.
guix describe shows:
```
$ guix describe
Generation 9 Mar 25 2021 08:36:11 (current)
guix 3f1b2bd
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 3f1b2bd322b6cdba99a43d08e5e8464f7424cbc5
```
Which is, indeed, out of date. IRC folks recommended checking the git
status, so I did:
```
~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
(master) $ git status
On branch master
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 474 commits, and can be
fast-forwarded.
(use "git pull" to update your local branch)
nothing to commit, working tree clean
```
It is, indeed, out of date, but after a guix pull:
```
$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
Building from this channel:
guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 3f1b2bd
Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... |
nothing to be done
```
It doesn't update and still tells me I'm out of date:
```
$ guix upgrade
guix upgrade: warning: Your Guix installation is 13 days old.
guix upgrade: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
```
It was suggested that I should run this command:
```
guix pull --commit=02297d3fe680371a4b97b9c1b770932cbdd55615
```
and after doing so, I was then only 1 commit behind instead:
```
~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
(master) $ git status
On branch master
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 1 commit, and can be
fast-forwarded.
(use "git pull" to update your local branch)
nothing to commit, working tree clean
```
However, `guix pull` now gives me a new error about needing to
downgrade:
```
$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
guix pull: error: aborting update of channel 'guix' to commit
3f1b2bd322b6cdba99a43d08e5e8464f7424cbc5, which is not a descendant of
02297d3fe680371a4b97b9c1b770932cbdd55615
hint: Use `--allow-downgrades' to force this downgrade.
```
and for some reason, I'm back to being almost 500 commits behind again:
```
~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
(master) $ git status
On branch master
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 477 commits, and can be
fast-forwarded.
(use "git pull" to update your local branch)
nothing to commit, working tree clean
```
even though `guix describe` now seems to be more up-to-date (apr 7
instead or mar 25)
```
$ guix describe
Generation 10 Apr 07 2021 14:38:16 (current)
guix 02297d3
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
commit: 02297d3fe680371a4b97b9c1b770932cbdd55615
```
As a final attempt to solve this, it was suggested that I run `guix
pull -l 2>&1 | tee pull-generations.log` and email it to this list. I'm
attaching that file here.
Also, after running that command, I'm back to being only 1 commit
behind and still get the downgrade error from `guix pull`:
```
~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
(master) $ git status
On branch master
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 1 commit, and can be
fast-forwarded.
(use "git pull" to update your local branch)
nothing to commit, working tree clean
```
```
$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
guix pull: error: aborting update of channel 'guix' to commit
3f1b2bd322b6cdba99a43d08e5e8464f7424cbc5, which is not a descendant of
02297d3fe680371a4b97b9c1b770932cbdd55615
hint: Use `--allow-downgrades' to force this downgrade.
```
For now, I'm trying to avoid doing anything else guix-related, so that
my system is in the same state and can hopefully be diagnosed and fixed.