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info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils)

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28144: info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:14:58 +0100

Hi Brant

I moved your reply below. Please avoid top posting.

On 2019-01-28 23:04, Brant Gardner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, at 12:57, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>

snip

>> Could you please tell us what “guix describe” and/or “guix --version”
>> say?  This would help us figure out if we can do something to prevent
>> this.
>>
>> You can get out of this problem by using a different variant of Guix to
>> run “guix pull”, e.g. ~/.config/guix/current-1-link/bin/guix pull.
> As normal user:
> 
> ~ % guix describe
> guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
> 
> ~ % guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0-8.7ba2b27
> Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> -----
> 
> Root gets very different answers, as you already pointed out I should expect:
> 
> root <at> mercury ~# guix describe
> Generation 3    Jan 27 2019 07:33:28    (current)
>    guix 4f8be6d
>      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>      branch: master
>      commit: 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
> 
> root <at> mercury ~# guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
> Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> 
> The path you indicated doesn't exist for me, can I use root's path to the guix executable to perform the pull and fix the normal user?

Yes if you make sure it and all directories above it is readable by the 
normal user.

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia

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