GNU bug report logs - #36942
Reconfigure broke GRUB

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ison <ison <at> airmail.cc>

Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 02:36:02 UTC

Severity: serious

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: zerodaysfordays <at> sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze)
Cc: ison <ison <at> airmail.cc>, 36942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36942: Reconfigure broke GRUB
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 23:53:22 +0200
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Hi Jakob,

On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:48:43 -0400
zerodaysfordays <at> sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) wrote:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've examined /var/guix/gcroots without #36947 and I get:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 24. Jul 11:32 profiles -> /var/guix/profiles
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 24. Jul 11:32 current-system -> /run/current-system
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 24. Jul 11:32 booted-system -> /run/booted-system
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   26 29. Jul 22:26 bootcfg -> //var/guix/gcroots/bootcfg
> >
> > So I guess I'm one "guix gc" away from also destroying my
> > installation.  
> 
> Was this fixed after applying #36947?

Yes.

> > The double slash looks very suspicious...  
> 
> Any reason in particular? The second slash is there because
> '%gc-roots-directory' has a leading slash, and that gets appended to
> 'target', which in this case is '/'.

Ah okay.
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