bug#28240: bad backtrace on “guix archive -x”

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Here’s what I did:

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wget -q -O - 
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/ykpfif2wzabhnn0a88sw3f96paa33k2z-r-minimal-3.4.0
 | guix archive -x /tmp/hydra
Backtrace:
           6 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/gkv8zl774h2qpa89mrf6d74fry3…")
In guix/ui.scm:
  1352:12  5 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    837:9  4 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f731bea09a8 at guix/ui.scm:450…> …)
    837:9  3 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f731bea09c0 at guix/ui.scm:538…> …)
In guix/scripts/archive.scm:
   345:28  2 (_)
In guix/serialization.scm:
   316:21  1 (restore-file #<input: file 0> "/tmp/hydra")
In unknown file:
           0 (utf8->string #vu8(0 3 236 189 11 116 92 213 149 32 # …))

ERROR: In procedure utf8->string:
ERROR: Throw to key `decoding-error' with args `("scm_from_utf8_stringn" "input 
locale conversion error" 0 #vu8(2 3 236 189 11 116 92 213 149 32 122 37 99 35 
93 140 100 136 1 135 132 230 32 4 37 9 85 233 227 15 178 141 140 74 82 217 85 
65 150 148 146 100 96 97 35 223 170 186 85 186 168 126 169 91 165 143 177 19 51 
134 4 45 183 50 76 122 186 87 207 116 214 123 204 91 157 76 122 77 86 154 158 
204 155 16 186 131 237 5 193 73 175 204 132 204 234 78 210 157 188 78 79 186 
211 145 67 62 116 39 33 36 233 224 183 247 62 159 251 169 42 27 99 32 153 181 
82 96 221 123 207 103 159 115 246 217 103 239 125 246 217 231 156 171 53 254 
203 91 75 65 163 148 156 179 22 204 96 31 124 55 136 240 14 241 188 66 60 203 
203 69 19 159 205 226 59 101 149 204 100 185 80 90 22 223 235 197 211 204 151 
41 172 30 156 188 145 35 56 235 196 119 194 202 123 227 11 41 138 127 187 234 
33 227 227 254 248 215 89 143 43 197 119 201 204 84 178 70 73 211 101 249 75 
102 178 82 54 18 89 83 243 252 154 196 51 89 200 151 161 142 246 31 183 243 239 
91 111 233 201 228 43 61 54 52 197 236 153 191 179 183 127 231 252 246 5 99 199 
64 118 222 40 38 142 36 151 147 169 35 15 221 153 219 158 120 40 177 45 49 16 
76 24 246 92 112 91 104 91 168 175 191 7 48 216 131 223 250 173 108 106 206 204 
102 2
…
[pages upon pages of numbers]
…
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The problem here is that I didn’t gunzip the file, but I guess it could
have told me that instead of giving me all these numbers.

-- 
Ricardo

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