Subject: bug#57838: failing to boot, probably due to guix gc

From: Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:44:38 +0000

dear Guixers,

on one of my installs i ran the following two commands as root:

guix gc --delete-generations=60d
guix system delete-generations 60d

i think i ran a reboot pretty soon after this, and the machine is failing to boot with the error "no code for module (ice-9 popen)".

i'm attaching a photo of the kernel panic screen.

the delete-generations left 3 generations, but all the three fail the same way.

i'll keep the machine as-is for a while if some inspection would help by providing logs/data. i also want to fix it and have it running soonish, so let me know if there's anything valuable i should extract from it before attempting to fix it. i hope a chroot and a reconfigure will fix it.

i think i ran the commands multiple times with different time ranges, and in different order.

i did something similar on another install, but IIRC i also ran a `guix system reconfigure` prior to the reboot, and that install didn't break.

HTH,

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