GNU bug report logs - #25430
`guix system reconfigure' fails with "symlink: File exists"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:51:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
Cc: 25430-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25430: `guix system reconfigure' fails with "symlink: File
 exists"
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:25:53 +0100

Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net> 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’.
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