Hi! Thank you both for your responses!
In the end I had already begun removing everything that find / -iname '*guix* would give me and that was not created by me, so I went the route of reinstallation. However, I'll archive these e-mails and in case I ever forget the `-i` in the sudo command again, I have the solution ready : ) Btw.: I deleted a whole lot more files than I thought I would need to. I make a list and only after the last 2 removals, the Guix installer would not find a previous installation any longer: ~~~~ rm --recursive --force /gnu/store || true; rm --recursive --force /var/guix || true; rm --recursive --force ~/.guix-profile || true; rm --recursive --force ~/.config/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /etc/guix/profile/config.scm || true; rm --recursive --force /tmp/guix.* || true; rm --recursive --force /home/xiaolong/.cache/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /root/.cache/guix/ || true; rm --recursive --force /root/.cache/guile/ || true; rm --recursive --force /var/log/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /root/.config/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service || true; rm --recursive --force /etc/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /usr/local/bin/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/guix-daemon.service || true; rm --recursive --force /usr/local/share/info/guix.* || true; rm --recursive --force /tmp/guix.Mgm || true; # all of the above does not help # you need to do also the following rm --recursive --force /var/guix || true; rm --recursive --force /gnu || true; ~~~~ Thanks for telling me about the need to use `-i` or `su -`, I did not know about it. I would have run into this problem again and again. Regards, Zelphir On 28.06.20 20:25, Marius Bakke wrote: > Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> writes: > >> Hi Guix Users! >> >> I would like to repair or reinstall my Guix package manager >> installation, because it seems broken and nothing I tried fixes the problem. >> >> The problem: >> >> ~~~~ >> xiaolong@xlx200:~/Downloads$ guix pull >> Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/xiaolong'... >> guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: >> "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/xiaolong/current-guix" >> ~~~~ >> >> It started appearing, when I once ran `guix pull` and `guix package -u` >> as `root` user, to update my locales in the root profile. > This can happen if you become root by any other method than 'sudo -i' or > 'su -', because the root shell will otherwise inherit variables such as > $HOME, leading to this problem. > > [...] > >> ~~~~ >> xiaolong@xlx200:~/Downloads$ guix pull >> Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/xiaolong'... >> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at >> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... >> guix pull: error: Git error: failed open - >> '/home/xiaolong/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/FETCH_HEAD' >> is locked: Permission denied >> ~~~~ > You can fix this by either deleting the directory, or > > sudo chown -R xiaolong:xiaolong > /home/xiaolong/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq > > Similarly, chowning or deleting /var/guix-profiles/per-user/xiaolong is > the only way to fix the permissions issue on the profile. > > [...] > >> So I a basically giving up now and want to reinstall. I downloaded the >> install script `guix-install.sh` from the website and ran it: >> >> ~~~~ >> xiaolong@xlx200:~/Downloads$ sudo bash guix-install.sh >> >> (... big GUIX logo here ...) >> >> This script installs GNU Guix on your system >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ >> Press return to continue... >> [1593338927.330]: Starting installation (So 28. Jun 12:08:47 CEST 2020) >> [1593338927.333]: [ PASS ] verification of required commands completed >> [1593338927.364]: [ INFO ] init system is: systemd >> [1593338927.368]: [ INFO ] system is x86_64-linux >> [1593338928.075]: [ PASS ] Release for your system: >> guix-binary-1.1.0.x86_64-linux >> [1593338928.077]: [ INFO ] Downloading Guix release archive >> guix-binary-1.1.0.x86_64 100%[==================================>] 70,14M >> 4,27MB/s in 21s >> guix-binary-1.1.0.x86_64 100%[==================================>] 833 >> --.-KB/s in 0s >> [1593338949.457]: [ PASS ] download completed. >> [1593338950.341]: [ PASS ] Signature is valid. >> [1593338959.807]: [ PASS ] unpacked archive >> [1593338959.808]: [ FAIL ] A previous Guix installation was found. Refusing >> to overwrite. >> ~~~~ >> >> "OK OK! I'll uninstall the previous one!" >> >> But how do I do it exactly? Or is there a flag or anything I can give to >> make it overwrite the previous installation? > Reinstalling still won't fix the permissions on your > ~/.cache/guix/checkouts. But to eradicate Guix and let the script do > its thing you should 'sudo rm -rf /var/guix /gnu'. > > Hope this helps! -- repositories: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl
