Subject: Re: bug#25430: `guix system reconfigure' fails with "symlink: File exists"
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:25:53 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Arun Isaac <[email-masked]> skribis:

>>>    ?: 0 [symlink "/gnu/store/f4mfsyzqsqccfh22z0md1s1jsk1m79mw-udisks-2.1.8/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.service" ...]
>>>
>>> ERROR: In procedure symlink:
>>> ERROR: In procedure symlink: File exists
>>> builder for `/gnu/store/dywvmn331drm2j6m474vbycdyiljnc4k-dbus-system-services.drv' failed with exit code 1
>>
>> This may be the result of adding UDisks D-Bus services more than once.
>
> Yes, I had added udisks-service twice -- once in %desktop-services, and
> once again by itself. I didn't realize that %desktop-services included
> udisks-service.
>
> Thanks! This issue is fixed.

Great!

Surely we could diagnose it better, not sure exactly how.

Thanks,
Ludo’.