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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christoph Unger <chrjunger <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 16:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 46949-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>, Christoph Unger <chrjunger <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46949-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46949: bug report
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:02:30 -0500

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 08:25:05AM +0100, Christoph Unger wrote:
>> This file is empty, 0 bytes, so I can't attach it (gmail won't let me). I
>> have de-installed guix in the meantime. Sorry that I can't help you
>> further.
>
> Okay. It's definitely suprising for this file to be empty. I suspect
> some I/O problems... it would be interesting to know what kind of
> storage was being used for /gnu.

Ext2/3/4 filesystems are known to sometimes leave empty files around
after system crashes.  It's one of the reasons I switched to btrfs,
which doesn't do that.

     Mark
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