Re: Installing the system from another distro

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2014-11-24 20:21 +0300) wrote:

> 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’:
>
> $ ./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'...
>
> [...]
>
> 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?

Yes, it failed before “La jena derivo estos esti konstruata:” message :-)

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

That's it!  It was very unexpected for me as I did "make clean-go" not so
long ago, but anyway it works now.  Thank you very much for such a
verbose answer and even testing (!)

I have another question.  I used "--no-grub" option, so I don't have a
proper grub.cfg.  I expected to see “/boot” directory with symlinks to
the linux and initram images but there is no such dir.  Do I understand
it right that “/gnu/store/…-linux-libre-3.17.4/bzImage” and
“/gnu/store/…-base-initrd/initrd” are hardcoded in the "grub.cfg"?

-- 
Alex