Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

[Manolis Ragkousis]

Hello everyone,

On 11/16/2017 12:13 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Samuel,  :-)
> 
> Samuel Thibault <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
>> Ludovic Courtès, on lun. 13 nov. 2017 11:42:01 +0100, wrote:
>>> PS: guix-daemon no longer depends on ‘lsof’, but it still depends on /proc.
>>
>> Does our procfs have everything it needs already?
> 
> It needs /proc/PID/{exe,cwd,fd,maps,environ}:
> 
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/nix/scripts/list-runtime-roots.in
> 
> That said, it’s quite optional: the worst that can happen if one of
> these things is missing is that something can be reclaimed “prematurely”
> from /gnu/store.  I say “prematurely” with quotes because users are
> supposed to register “real” GC roots anyway, as with ‘guix package -i’
> or ‘guix build --root’.

That reminds me, Rene have you tried running 'guix gc -C' ? What is the
output? Because I have a problem with this on Guix on Hurd and I haven't
managed to fix it yet.