On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 07:11:33PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > What does ‘grep ^localstatedir config.log’ return? For my "master" and "staging" worktrees, it returns: localstatedir='/var' However, I've since done a full garbage collection and reconfigured, so it doesn't really prove anything. > So this is really weird. AFAICS nothing has changed in this area. You > could try building a new profile generation and then run things like > ‘guix gc --list-live’ to see if the profile (in /gnu/store) is there, > and also ‘guix gc --list-roots’ to see if the profile itself (normally > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix-profile) is listed. --list-live actually starts by printing this: ------ $ guix gc --list-live finding garbage collector roots... skipping invalid root from `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-197-link' to `/gnu/store/1ph7vxq4hhqr1hjkmgin16p1cqx3v904-profile' determining live/dead paths... [... and then the paths are printed ...] ------ And --list-roots does include the bogus profile, exactly as described in the warning from --list-live: ------ # guix gc --list-roots /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-113-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-109-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-110-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-111-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-112-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-113-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-196-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-192-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-193-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-194-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-195-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-196-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-197-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-152-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-147-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-148-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-149-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-150-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-151-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-152-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-642-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-631-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-632-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-633-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-634-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-635-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-636-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-637-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-638-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-639-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-640-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-641-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/guix-profile-642-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-147-link /home/leo/.cache/guix/inferiors/xme6psb4eddn2fvq262cxw6yxepo7reqzpkqf7r24hpemqkqddoq /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-152-link /root/guix-profile-staging-1-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-112-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-109-link /home/leo/.cache/guix/inferiors/erkfkimh2njpo5acqlz4ep5o6iihv3bgmfxpahltoityb3h5sguq /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-111-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-150-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-110-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-113-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-148-link /home/leo/.cache/guix/inferiors/jtzxrv5w2ppetxbu5sfxa45y36fjvgygksqu3uu7o36kizufmhta /root/.config/guix/latest /home/leo/.cache/guix/inferiors/xrlvjdtbkf6yqqcgwo34arbfpnb4lszopf7bcj4mq3etpl6dxbra /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-149-link /var/guix/profiles/per-user/leo/current-guix-151-link /var/guix/profiles ------ Regarding the suspicious "/root/guix-profile-staging-1-link", it's leftover from testing the staging branch. I created it with `guix pull --branch=staging --profile=/root/guix-profile-staging`. And, it's time to delete /root/.config/guix/latest :)