Re: core-updates summer 2017

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:47:06PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>>> Let's use this thread to discuss the state of the branch.
>>
>> I've reconfigured and rebooted my x86_64-linux GuixSD system based on
>> the latest core-updates (2f0d1b9dd2d75c5501767a15cf9b87fc057711c0).
>>
>> There are some new warnings / errors during early boot, that read like
>> this:
>>
>> ------
>> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file 
>> /gnu/store/...-module-import-compiled/gnu/build/linux-boot.go failed:
>> ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object file: 
>> "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01ÿ\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
>> ------
>>
>> This seems reminiscent of the object format change between Guile 2.0 and
>> Guile 2.2, but I'm not sure what's going on. I've attached photos of my
>> screen, which provide some more context.
>
> It looks like the initrd is still running Guile 2.0 but getting 2.2
> modules.

This is fixed as of ef03d8dc3724caf59c7ea4a551084ddc601e4597.  I can
build and run my GuixSD config with ‘guix system vm’ at this point.  \o/

Ludo’.