I can not remove packages with the latest guix from git: ~~~ [rwurmus@dev:~/code/guix] (526) $ ./pre-inst-env guix package -r samtools The following package will be removed: samtools 1.1 /gnu/store/7jyc8p4cl7mfls9wq3fb7f6m6ipjvgd9-samtools-1.1
Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 19 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 432: 18 [eval # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 2401: 17 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 132b940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>] 4050: 16 [#<procedure 132b940 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>] 1724: 15 [%start-stack load-stack ...] 1729: 14 [#<procedure 1343ea0 ()>] In unknown file: ?: 13 [primitive-load "/home/rwurmus/code/guix/scripts/guix"] In guix/ui.scm: 781: 12 [run-guix-command package "-r" "samtools"] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 11 [catch srfi-34 #<procedure 258a960 at guix/ui.scm:218:2 ()> ...] 157: 10 [catch system-error ...] In guix/scripts/package.scm: 975: 9 [#<procedure 258ec00 at guix/scripts/package.scm:964:4 ()>] 821: 8 [process-actions (# # # # ...)] In guix/ui.scm: 311: 7 [show-what-to-build #<build-daemon 256.14 2593ec0> (#) #:dry-run? ...] In guix/utils.scm: 681: 6 [loop () () ...] In guix/ui.scm: 313: 5 [#<procedure 3892630 at guix/ui.scm:311:24 (drv build download)> # () ()] In guix/derivations.scm: 206: 4 [derivation-prerequisites-to-build # # # ...] In guix/store.scm: 694: 3 [substitutable-paths # #] In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 616: 2 [for-each #<procedure 319e2c0 at guix/serialization.scm:112:12 (t-6257)> #] In guix/serialization.scm: 85: 1 [write-string #f #<input-output: socket 10>] In unknown file: ?: 0 [string->utf8 #f] ERROR: In procedure string->utf8: ERROR: In procedure string->utf8: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting string): #f ~~~ I have only two packages installed: samtools and emacs. Attempting to remove either package results in this error. I tried previous versions from git (going back as far as the tagged v0.8), but there's no difference. I suppose it's something to do with my system. LANG is set to en_GB.UTF-8. I'm running guix on top of Fedora 20. Best, Ricardo
