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bug#28144: info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils)
From: |
Brant Gardner |
Subject: |
bug#28144: info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils) |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:04:43 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Cyrus-JMAP/3.1.5-766-ge2be361-fmstable-20190123v1 |
As normal user:
~ % guix describe
guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
~ % guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0-8.7ba2b27
Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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Root gets very different answers, as you already pointed out I should expect:
address@hidden ~# guix describe
Generation 3 Jan 27 2019 07:33:28 (current)
guix 4f8be6d
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
address@hidden ~# guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
The path you indicated doesn't exist for me, can I use root's path to the guix
executable to perform the pull and fix the normal user?
Thank you,
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Brant Gardner
Key: E9F7 AC51 99A7 C8DF 355D A751 7064 3C93 00C0 FBCE
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, at 12:57, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Brant Gardner <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I get this very reproducibly with 'guix pull', starting last
> > week. This is on a pretty simple installation of GuixSD, no extra
> > parameters or unusual environment. Is there anything I gather that
> > would help?
> >
> > Note: This only seems to happen for the non-root user executing 'guix
> > pull' - so far it has not show for root.
>
> That’s because every user has their own version of Guix. The root
> user’s copy of Guix differs from that of your other user account.
>
> Could you please tell us what “guix describe” and/or “guix --version”
> say? This would help us figure out if we can do something to prevent
> this.
>
> You can get out of this problem by using a different variant of Guix to
> run “guix pull”, e.g. ~/.config/guix/current-1-link/bin/guix pull.
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
>