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bug#20037: problem still persist


From: Tomáš Čech
Subject: bug#20037: problem still persist
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 23:06:39 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 11:05:34PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> skribis:

I'm afraid I can reproduce it.

It’s a different problem this time.  :-)

----------------------%<----my-config.scm----begin---->%-------------------

[...]

 (packages
  (append
   (list
    ;; absolutely necessary
    emacs lvm2 mc bash texinfo

(Unrelated, but I personally find it more convenient to have only core
packages in the global profile, and then have the rest in user
profiles.)

(
I do agree with you, but
   emacs - default editor and interface for Guix
   lvm2 - I need it to mount filesystems
   mc - OK, this can be ommited
   bash - regardless being BASH fan and user - this de-facto standard, my
          scripts relies on bashism for speed and cleaner code (really! :)
   texinfo - I really need to access DMD and Guix manuals to be able to use
             them (already happened to me when I got lost without Internet
             connection)
)


[...]

 (services
  (append
   (list
    (lsh-service #:port-number 22 #:root-login? #t #:initialize? #t)
    (slim-service)
    (wicd-service)
    (avahi-service)
    (dbus-service (list avahi wicd))
    (mingetty-service "ttyS0"))

[...]

   ?: 0 [symlink "/gnu/store/z95z25d73kjza99s3w95lrdsiqlcdv0a-login" ...]

ERROR: In procedure symlink:
ERROR: In procedure symlink: File exists

The culprit is the ‘mingetty-service’ call above: since it uses a #:motd
different from that used in the other ‘mingetty-service’ calls in
%base-services, the thing tries to create a different pam.d/login file
for it, but that fails because there’s already a pam.d/login file.

The workaround is to write:

   (mingetty-service "ttyS0"
                     #:motd (text-file "motd" "
This is the GNU operating system, welcome!\n\n"))

FTR (in case someone will face the same problem), text-file is in (guix store)
module so you will need to add that one as well.

Since this is the same motd as the other mingetty services, everything
is fine.

This is of course unsatisfactory.  The more general issue is that
service procedures need to be able to share state/configuration info,
which I hope we can fix soon.

Thanks for your analysis. I can confirm that your workaround worked and I can
use Guix once again. Sorry for not recognizing this as another issue.

Thanks,

S_W





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