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System activation fails due to preexisting /etc/modprobe.d

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58084: guix deploy fails, leaving the newly installed system generation active
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:48:11 -0400

Hello again,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> … which is fine, except that there was already a pre-existing
>> /etc/modprobe.d directory (coming from openSuSE, the distro that was
>> initially installed on this machine), which caused this activation code
>> to break:
>
> Oh wow! Should we be extra careful and always rm files before linking to
> their location?  Or define our own 'symlink' procedure that'd take care
> of it?  That's not very elegant but better than obscure crashes like
> this.

I just had a better idea: fail and report that an unexpected file was
found there, leaving the user to inspect it and choose a proper action.

Thanks,

Maxim

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