Subject: bug#37128: guix system reconfigure stops output after "Evaluating user expression..."

From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:23:05 +0200

This is the last message in /var/log/messages:

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Aug 29 09:13:40 localhost shepherd[1]: Evaluating user expression (let* ((services (map primitive-load (?))) # ?) ?). 
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> Did
> /var/log/messages or the console show anything?

What console?

> I suppose you’d have to try again the experiment.  Presumably there’s
> some fsck-like process or something taking time or waiting for input.

Note that everything works alright.  But I'm worried that this would
fail on a new installation where the bootloader is missing :(

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Pierre Neidhardt
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