Subject: bug#34006: Guix gc killed live roots - broke git

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:52:32 +0100

swedebugia <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 2019-01-07 12:31, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Hi swedebugia,
>>
>>> $ git pull swedebugia
>>> fatal: unable to fork
>>>
>>> Stracing it reveals that it is missing something (see full attached):
>>
>> Where do you see that?
>
> Ah, sorry the full command was:
> strace git pull swedebugia

What I meant is that the excerpt you showed does not reveal that
“missing something” is the cause of the error.  Having a bunch of things
not found is pretty normal given that search paths are used.

> I tried installing git again with guix package -i git, but it seems no
> substitutes are available anymore to my surprise (0.16 is not even 2
> months old).

Substitutes from berlin / ci.guix.info?

-- 
Ricardo