Nope, there is nothing after the colon in the output when this error shows up.
Ok, I will run that next time I get this error. On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:12:24 +0100, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > <[email protected]> skribis: > > > Often I'll get this output when building a manifest* with an inferior: > > > > ``` > > itsme@antelope /tmp$ guix package -n -m example-inferior.scm > > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at > > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... > > guix package: error: failed to load 'example-inferior.scm': > > ``` > > There’s nothing following the colon above? > > > I believe this is the 'inferior-for-channels' function that fails. > > > > After investigating a while back, it seems removing the relevant checkout > > in ~/.cache/guix/checkouts temporarily fixes it, but the issue often comes > > back. > > I wonder if it could be <https://issues.guix.info/issue/34016>, though > I’ve never experienced it in ~/.cache/guix, despite using ‘guix pull’ & > co. a lot. > > Next time this happens, could you run: > > strace -s 100 -o log guix package -n -m example-inferior.scm > > and post the last few hundred lines of ‘log’? > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
