I'm writing now from the machine on which i previously "could not
install guix". I have installed guix on it. It has not gone well, but
after several days of struggle it more or less sort of works.

Since installing it I have successfully done 'guix pull' a few times,
but a day or two ago it stopped working with various apparently
memory-related errors. This machine has 16GB ram. I don't know exactly
what this error message means:

levity@dis_box ~$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
'https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git'...
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted

.. but I suspect it is not related to a shortage of RAM.

Meanwhile I have been able to install and upgrade packages as usual with
no apparent issues. I have tried rolling-back to the previous generation
(only 2 were listed in 'guix package --list-generations when I tried
this) but with no apparent change.

I have done 'guix package --upgrade' but that did not affect guix per
its output, and did not change the behavior of 'guix pull'.
I tried 'guix refresh', even though I don't understand what it does; it
ran for a long time and then failed with an error I forgot to write
down. I observed no effect on 'guix pull'.


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