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Adding btrfs support may break reconfigured system

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Message #13 received at 25573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 25573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25573: Adding btrfs support may break reconfigured system
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:29:45 +0300

Ludovic Courtès (2017-01-30 10:41 +0100) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Hello, recently I found that "guix system" makes a "broken" system for
>> me.  When I boot a freshly created system, I get something like this:
>>
>>   In procedure <...> at ./gnu/build/file-systems.scm:282:4 (device)
>>   In procedure fport_seek: Invalid argument
>>
>> and I'm thrown at the Guile promt.
>
> I think this is due to ‘read-superblock’ trying to seek beyond the end
> of one of the devices that’s on your machine.
>
> Could you try the attached patch and see if it solves the problem?

Yes, guix makes a bootable system with this modification, thank you!

> Thanks for reporting it!

Thanks for fixing it! :-)

-- 
Alex

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