Re: /gnu/store/ corruption on crash

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> I've got a problem on an X200 where, after I did standby 3 times, it will 
> wake up fine but at the first larger disk access hang the machine.
>
> This E-Mail is not directly about that problem.
>
> However, this time, guix did package install when that happened and now 
> /gnu/store/ is corrupted.
>
> /gnu/store/7k7wicjr8rpb65h2f33j8ibpmffwjp6d-fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2.drv 
> now has 0 Byte.
>
> Should it be possible for that to happen?

.drv files should never be empty, so it’s definitely a corruption.

You can try ‘guix gc --verify’ or ‘guix gc --verify=contents’
(expensive.)

HTH,
Ludo’.