Hi Gary, So it's something specific to the Guix 1.5.0 install on Ubuntu then. What version of Ubuntu are you using, the latest LTS or a standard release?
Rurtherther's intuition that it's connected to the 'non-priveleged' install is probably a good one. - Do you see anything in the system logs (e.g. journalctl -b) - And/or anything from the guix service (e.g. journaltctl -u guix-daemon.service -b) - Do you see anything in the logs from AppArmor complaining? (e.g. less /var/log/syslog search for 'apparmor') - Can you see if guix-daemon shows up in apparmor status (e.g. sudo aa-status), I have: [... lots of stuff ...] /gnu/store/ccxagad0fnzyh0z5xflh3wjlxn4la79n-guile-wrapper/bin/guile (227843) guix /gnu/store/04j54wzbzfq7dlqnm6bky00vv17n4v6m-guile-3.0.11/bin/guile (227861) guix /gnu/store/7y126vzlrkn8lljipsrj1jigq0vzcf65-goimapnotify-2.5.3/bin/goimapnotify (228019) guix /gnu/store/kisvshd7dx07h33brcnpj7zmg7xnwk3v-guix-daemon-1.4.0-46.d671b75/bin/guix-daemon (252364) guix [... more stuff ...] Steve / Futurile On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 09:36:35PM +0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > Hi Steve, > > The package definition that I shared (and those like it that are exhibiting > the same error with the install-license-files phase) have not been changed in > quite some time. > > They built correctly with `guix build` on my personal Guix System machine, on > my team members' Ubuntu machines, and on all of our Ubuntu VMs. These have > been building correctly and running deployed within Guix System containers on > top of Ubuntu for several months now. > > Then I recently recreated some of my Ubuntu VMs with larger hard drives and > ran the same Guix installation code that I had used previously on them. > However, this time the install script that is downloaded from > https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh installed the new 1.5.0 version of Guix onto > my VMs. After this, I attempted to build and install these packages on the > VMs and they crashed in the install-license-files phase with the stacktrace > that I shared in my last email. > > I should note that they build fine on my Guix System machine, and I have > tried `guix build --check ...` as per your recommendation to force rebuilds > without any errors. I am running the latest Guix master branch commit as of > yesterday. > > I should note that even when I use `guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- > build --check ...` on my Guix System machine, I get no errors, despite the > channels.scm file using a Guix commit that is several months old. > > The problem appears to only be happening on my new Ubuntu machines. When I > tried to use `guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- build --check ...` on > those machines (with the same channels.scm as I am using on my Guix System > machine), I get the install-license-files phase error. This makes it seem > like something may have changed in the match code in install-license-files > somehow, but I still don't understand how it could manifest itself on one > machine (Guix on Ubuntu) but not on another (Guix System), when they are both > using the same channels.scm file. > > Any ideas are welcome. > > Thanks, > Gary > > Steve George <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi Gary, > > > > Have you tried building an existing package in the archive (e.g using > > --check), so that would remove the chance that it's something with the > > package definition? > > > > If it's a general problem with 'guix build' do you also have a problem with > > 'guix shell'. The main difference in the install now is that it's done > > without root permissions, I had some problems getting this right on an > > existing install. > > > > Steve / Futurile > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 09:10:02PM +0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > >> Hi Guix, > >> > >> I recently installed Guix onto a new Ubuntu VM using the standard > >> guix-install.sh script. Now on this VM, I cannot successfully build > >> packages that do build correctly on my own machine. > >> > >> While one might expect that I am just running different versions of Guix > >> on each machine, this shouldn't be the case because I am using the same > >> channels.scm file on both computers via the `guix time-machine` command. > >> I've never seen different behavior between two machines running the same > >> Guix version and building the same packages before, so I am utterly > >> mystified. > >> > >> Here's the error I get on my new VM when building a package: > >> > >> =========================================================================== > >> > >> starting phase `install-license-files' > >> error: in phase 'install-license-files': uncaught exception: > >> match-error "match" "no matching pattern" #f > >> phase `install-license-files' failed after 0.0 seconds > >> Backtrace: > >> 9 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/mbyp0pi1lbcqzw22mv0bjpabqis…") > >> In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: > >> 972:2 8 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:inputs _ #:phases . #) > >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > >> 1752:10 7 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) > >> In srfi/srfi-1.scm: > >> 634:9 6 (for-each #<procedure 71ac5e089d40 at guix/build/gnu-b…> …) > >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > >> 1752:10 5 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) > >> In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: > >> 993:23 4 (_) > >> 889:7 3 (install-license-files #:outputs _ #:license-file-regexp …) > >> 881:4 2 (_) > >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > >> 1685:16 1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) > >> 1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) > >> > >> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: > >> Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no matching pattern" #f)'. > >> build process 11 exited with status 256 > >> > >> =========================================================================== > >> > >> Here is one of the many offending files that are all failing for me like > >> this: > >> > >> (define geoserver-css-plugin > >> (package > >> (name "geoserver-css-plugin") > >> (version "2.19.6") > >> (source (origin > >> (method url-fetch) > >> (uri (string-append > >> "https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/"; version > >> "/extensions/geoserver-" version > >> "-css-plugin.zip")) > >> (sha256 (base32 > >> "06h2avzqps4dv9lwpck14v4cpk511z1mh13d3w5ii1153rcqdihb")))) > >> (build-system copy-build-system) > >> (arguments '(#:install-plan '(("." "./" #:exclude > >> ("environment-variables"))))) > >> (native-inputs (list unzip)) > >> (home-page > >> "https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/css/install.html";) > >> (synopsis "GeoServer CSS Plugin") > >> (description "The GeoServer CSS Plugin enables you to write layer > >> styles using CSS instead of SLD.") > >> (license gpl2))) > >> > >> In order to get them to build I have to modify their build phases like so: > >> > >> (define geoserver-css-plugin > >> (package > >> (name "geoserver-css-plugin") > >> (version "2.19.6") > >> (source (origin > >> (method url-fetch) > >> (uri (string-append > >> "https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/"; version > >> "/extensions/geoserver-" version > >> "-css-plugin.zip")) > >> (sha256 (base32 > >> "06h2avzqps4dv9lwpck14v4cpk511z1mh13d3w5ii1153rcqdihb")))) > >> (build-system copy-build-system) > >> (arguments '(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases > >> (delete 'install-license-files)) > >> #:install-plan '(("." "./" #:exclude > >> ("environment-variables"))))) > >> (native-inputs (list unzip)) > >> (home-page > >> "https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/css/install.html";) > >> (synopsis "GeoServer CSS Plugin") > >> (description "The GeoServer CSS Plugin enables you to write layer > >> styles using CSS instead of SLD.") > >> (license gpl2))) > >> > >> Does anybody have any idea what could be going on here? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Gary > >> > >> -- > >> GPG Key ID: C4FBEDBD > >> Use `gpg --search-keys [email protected]' to find me > >> Protect yourself from surveillance: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org > >> ======================================================================= > >> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > >> /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > >> > >> Why is HTML email a security nightmare? 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