Subject: bug#63868: closed (Re: bug#63868: [reconfigure, shepherd] error: remove: unbound variable)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:23:02 +0000

Your bug report

#63868: [reconfigure, shepherd] error: remove: unbound variable

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#63868: [reconfigure, shepherd] error: remove: unbound variable
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:22:46 +0200
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Hi,

Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]> skribis:

> services: Error in MODIFY-SERVICES when services don't exist
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=dbbc7e946131ba257728f1d05b96c4339b7ee88b
>
> one commit prior in the history works fine: ae707b62e71b1fae054eb422412384bcc8d39fa9

There were problems with that commit that have been mostly fixed now:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63921

How this could explain what you describe, I don’t know, not having a
clear picture of what happened.

I’m closing but please reopen with additional info if you think there’s
still something wrong.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Subject: [reconfigure, shepherd] error: remove: unbound variable
From: Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:03:25 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

$ sudo guix system reconfigure ...
[...]
building /gnu/store/8by5a6wqlxm3fw27xh3a6zzzwfczjpcm-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
guix system: bootloader successfully installed on '(/boot/efi)'
guix system: warning: exception caught while executing 'eval' on service 'root':
error: remove: unbound variable
guix system: warning: some services could not be upgraded
hint: To allow changes to all the system services to take effect, you will need to reboot.

$

(notice the empty line before the prompt; may or may not be relevant)

this is all foggy.  the only certain part is that i get the above printed with a recent commit, but when i rolled back the guix channel to:

(commit "f9af75b2c34aab564c821b5bacebd8570777a535")

then it finished without the above error.

when it happens it also seems to break booting. it hang rather early, not long after grub.

it's happening on a server where i'd like to keep downtime low, so i didn't do double checks. i just rolled back, reconfigured, and it worked afterwards.

HTH,

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