Re: The broken 0.13 release for GuixSD

[ng0]

On Wed, 24 May 2017 09:59:17 +0200 (CEST), <address@hidden> wrote:

> Going from within GuixSD 0.12 to 0.13 (multiple guix pull issued to get
> all the dependencies you might lack) works.
> 
> GuixSD 0.13 medium on new installations, with no system present previously,
> so far failed on all types of hardware from the last 1 - 15 years for me 
> including
> bios and uefi systems.
> 
> All get stuck on the same test.
> This should not happen at all with a release.
> 
> 
> Last I will try today is create an install target from this 0.13 resembling
> machine I'm writing on right now, to see if this magically fixes the tests.


Wow, this is fckd up. You know how I made the install pass (or at least go
beyond the point of the test failing)?

guix pull; guix environment --ad-hoc guix
in environment: guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt

what?