Subject: Re: bug#57838: (No Subject)

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:31:31 +0200

Hi Attila,
Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]> writes:

> i have fixed it by running a reconfigure in a chroot.
>
> surprisingly, this has also fixed the old, previously broken system generations, not only the newly created one.
>
> maybe some boot related references are not traversed while GC'ing?

I just checked a couple of things on my own system generation:
* the boot script execl's shepherd, which specifies the (full) guile
  interpreter as a full path in the shebang line;
* that guile interpreter does contain the (ice-9 popen) module;
* that same guile interpreter does appear as a requisite of the system
  generation, so shouldn't be gc'd as long as it's a gc root.

I've got no clue :(

-- 
Josselin Poiret