Re: Installing the system from another distro

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hello, I've tried to install the Guix system from my current system
> ("Arch Linux") where I use the Guix package manager:
>
>   ./pre-inst-env guix system init /path/to/my-os-config.scm /mnt/guix

That should definitely work: it’s the same command that one runs from
the installation image, nothing special.

> Unfortunately it failed (os-config and the backtrace are attached).

[...]

> In gnu/system.scm:
>  702: 3 [#<procedure 9781150 at gnu/system.scm:702:2 (store)> #]
>  449: 2 [#<procedure 9781168 at gnu/system.scm:449:2 (store)> #]
>  455: 1 [#<procedure 8fd76e0 at gnu/system.scm:449:2 (services)> (# # # # 
> ...)]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [concatenate (() () () () () () () () () ...)]
>
> ERROR: In procedure concatenate:
> ERROR: In procedure append: Wrong type argument in position 19 (expecting 
> empty list): #f

Believe it or not ;-), I cannot reproduce this bug.

I tried with the very same configuration on current ‘master’:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix system init alex.scm $PWD/t/
La jena derivo estos esti konstruata:
   /gnu/store/h141fwh5mcjn6zq5192ff12hrxb9x9nn-system.drv
   /gnu/store/w18dn1ilngzip9yb9bk8dc34igidihsn-grub.cfg.drv
   /gnu/store/8p0m7kj666r0hv56r4b3a38556h1b8wf-dmd.conf.drv
   /gnu/store/0hdpjmmvgby0i194wf3hjs56nfn511sd-activate.drv
   /gnu/store/x2m84jd8w2x17ikq6qslb5argkg71bas-boot.drv
   /gnu/store/53320875lhrp11bvdjg47r2sqs3x32sz-linux-modules.drv
   /gnu/store/8j8z5nm2xkzjrr4mh7hf17dcvsxrxrjn-init.drv

[...]

/gnu/store/2bjpb39finn5rw006rrh4xxcqbzdij94-system
/gnu/store/a3k9dx6i1w44qff2n9s99xlx2rlsmwq8-grub-2.00
/gnu/store/sjcj2k78qalfzm799b06hf6hixh8mfwv-grub.cfg

ni ekigas la operaci-sistemon sub '/home/ludo/src/guix/t/'...
copying '/gnu/store/64sqqj8pbhff0w80x0gbliqirkcimy1k-glibc-2.20-locales'...
copying '/gnu/store/4k20pkxgvfc22wpcvh6xr26ma4b619ad-glibc-2.20'...

[...]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then I ran out of space on that partition, and the command wasn’t
running as root, so it would have failed to install GRUB anyway.

The backtrace you should suggests things failed before even files were
copied to the store under /mnt/guix, right?

Could it be an ABI issue that vanishes after “make clean-go && make”?

HTH,
Ludo’.