Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> skribis: > Then, I uncommented the /home section in drakenvlieg.scm, like so > > ;; Switch to GuixSD > (file-system (device "home") > (title 'label) > (mount-point "/home") > (type "ext4")) > (file-system (device (label "Debian")) (title 'label) (mount-point > "/debian") (type "ext4") (flags '(read-only))) > > and (without considering I had mounted /hoom and set $HOME there) ran > > guix system reconfigure drakenvlieg.scm > > which eventually printed > > ... > guix system: loading new services: file-system-/home urandom-seed ntpd > avahi-daemon ssh-daemon... > shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load > "/gn...") ...). > > In /var/log/messages I found some clue as to why this did not return
[...] > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Evaluating user expression (register-services > (primitive-load "/gn...") #). > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 GNU Guile 2.0.11 > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details > type `,show w'. > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 This program is free software, and you are welcome to > redistribute it > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 > 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Enter `,help' for help. What happens is that it failed to fsck /home (since it was already mounted), and stupidly started a rescue REPL that you couldn’t see. The rescue REPL is a good idea when booting the system; see for instance: http://bugs.gnu.org/22588 However, in the case of an upgrade, we need a way to say “no REPL please”. Or maybe a way to make the ‘start’ method idempotent by checking whether the thing is already mounted. Thoughts? Ludo’.
