bug#64187: closed (guix locate: unsupported manifest format)

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> guix locate: unsupported manifest format
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> Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:25:09 +0200
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> mu4e 1.10.2; emacs 28.2
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> I ran “guix locate” on the HPC cluster where we generally don’t ever run
> “guix gc”.  Here’s what I got:
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> $ time guix locate ls
> guix locate: indexing files from /gnu/store...
> guix locate: traversing local profile manifests...
> guix locate: error: unsupported manifest format
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> real    2m24.029s
> user    3m11.519s
> sys     0m5.617s
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> It would be good if it printed the location of the problematic manifest
> and ignored it.
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> Ricardo
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
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> >> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> >>> However, how can it happen?  ‘guix locate’ knows all the manifest format
> >>> version, so maybe it mistook a file for a manifest when in fact it’s
> >>> something else?
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> >>> Could you ‘strace -o /tmp/log.strace guix locate ls’ to get the name of
> >>> the offending file for now?
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> >> The last manifest it reads is
> >> /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user/wneuber/guix-profile-1-link/manifest
> >> with the following contents
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> >> (manifest
> >>   (version 1)
> >>   (packages
> >>     (("gcc"
> >>       "4.9.2"
> >>       "out"
> >>       "/gnu/store/ym7sybrdifnm3g0rafhclv891niaczcv-gcc-4.9.2"
> >>       ()))))
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> > Woow, this profile predates May 2015 and commit
> > dedb17ad010ee9ef67f3f4f3997dd17f226c8090.  And indeed, it’s no longer
> > recognized since e7e04396c0e91569bf493e1352d6539babc15327 (July 2022).
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> > I’ll work on a fix…
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> Fixed in commit e1c2c2f042e8741c0759e21e634cd2271e078177!
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> Ludo’.
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