Hi!
On Ubuntu, starting from
"guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: ..."
I manually removed/changed/created symlinks and had guix working again.
A few `guix pull` and `sudo guix pull` later:
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~: guix pull
guile: warning: failed to install locale
hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales'
package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil'...
guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil/current-guix"
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(glibc-utf8-locales is installed and
GUIX_LOCPATH=/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/lib/locale is set, but that's
another topic)
Now:
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~: readlink ~/.config/guix/current
current-1-link
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current-1-link doesn't exist!
I'm breathing manually now. I would appreciate an overview of what is
supposed to sit where and where it is supposed to point to. I may have
gotten something wrong ... but then again, guix working and failing
again shortly after isn't exactly the outcome I'd expect in that case.
Sidenote: I wanted to try pulling as root and then choosing the same
commit as user, as recently suggested:
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~: sudo guix describe
(...)
guix: describe: command not found
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Plain `guix describe` did work, until this linking business went wrong
again.
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~: sudo guix --version
=> 0.15.0-2.8bbb79c
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Thorsten Wilms
thorwil's design for free software:
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/
