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ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my system

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Message #59 received at 46942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: raid5atemyhomework <raid5atemyhomework <at> protonmail.com>, zimoun
 <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "pengmeiyu <at> riseup.net" <pengmeiyu <at> riseup.net>,
 "46942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <46942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#46942: ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my system
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:21:32 +0100

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On Mon, 2021-03-15 at 00:13 +0000, raid5atemyhomework via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> [...]
> I recently had to rebuild an OS (because I was dumb; the Guix language
> for shepherd services can easily lead you deadlocking shepherd itself)
> and had supreme difficulty reinstalling, [...]

Reinstalling after a messed up configuration file shouldn't be necessary.
At least when using GRUB as bootloader, guix keeps some old (& presumably
not broken) system generations around, that can be selected when booting
from the bootloader.  (I don't recall exactly how the menu is named,
maybe ‘Old system generations of $HOSTNAMES?)

Greetings,
Maxime.

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