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Dear guix,
Your work on a functional package manager has perked my interest and
compelled me to try it out for myself. Unfortunately GNU Guix doesn't
run on Fedora due to the dependence on nscd, I thus had to resort to
downloading your qcow2 image available at
I checked the signature and ran the image with the following command
(which I copied from the reference manual page on running GNU Guix on a
virtual machine, with the difference that I increased the amount of
memory because the system couldn't do a «guix pull» without freezing
and invoking the OOM killer):
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> qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci \
> -enable-kvm -m 4096 \
> -device virtio-blk,drive=myhd \
> -drive
> if=none,file=guix-system-vm-image-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2,id=myhd
However I noticed that every time I run «guix system reconfigure», I
get a file system check failure and am dumped into a bournish shell
when I reboot. I therefore tried to see what happens if I simply do
«guix pull», followed by «sudo guix system reconfigure
/run/current-system/configuration.scm» without doing anything else,
which from what I understand should always work. However, this also
leads to a file system check failure on reboot.
At the beginning of the system reconfigure command output, there's this
warning:
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> guix system: warning: cannot determine provenance for current system
And at the end of the output there is:
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> shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?))
> (map (# ?) ?)).
> The following derivation will be built:
> /gnu/store/zadlv1c08flw782s2vgii264pvh6a3d1-upgrade-shepherd-services.scm.drv
>
> building
> /gnu/store/zadlv1c08flw782s2vgii264pvh6a3d1-upgrade-shepherd-services.scm.drv...
> guix system: warning: exception caught while executing 'eval' on
> service 'root':
> error: service: unbound variable
> guix system: warning: some services could not be upgraded
> hint: To allow changes to all the system services to take effect, you
> will need to reboot.
I have sent you the last few lines in an attachment. (it only contains
the last lines, because the xfce-terminal doesn't remember that much
output and because I couldn't figure out how to get tee to save all
output)
On reboot I get the following (transcribed, since I don't know how I
can copy-paste the vm output to the host machine):
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> loading kernel modules...
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/vda1
> /dev/vda1:
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid
> ext2/ext3/ext4
> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an
> ext2/ext3/ext4
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
> superblock:
> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> or
> e2fsck -b 32768 <device>
>
> /dev/vda1 contains a vfat file system labelled 'GNU-ESP'
> File system check on /dev/vda1 failed
> Spawning Bourne-like REPL.
If in the boot menu I choose to run an old configuration, the error
does not occur.
I hope this report will be of help.
Regards,
Leon Deml
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shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?)).
The following derivation will be built:
/gnu/store/zadlv1c08flw782s2vgii264pvh6a3d1-upgrade-shepherd-services.scm.drv
building /gnu/store/zadlv1c08flw782s2vgii264pvh6a3d1-upgrade-shepherd-services.scm.drv...
guix system: warning: exception caught while executing 'eval' on service 'root':
error: service: unbound variable
guix system: warning: some services could not be upgraded
hint: To allow changes to all the system services to take effect, you will need to reboot.