bug#37128: guix system reconfigure stops output after "Evaluating user expression..."

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> This is the last message in /var/log/messages:
>
> Aug 29 09:13:40 localhost shepherd[1]: Evaluating user expression (let* 
> ((services (map primitive-load (?))) # ?) ?). 
>
>> Did
>> /var/log/messages or the console show anything?
>
> What console?

/dev/console, so tty1, typically.

>> I suppose you’d have to try again the experiment.  Presumably there’s
>> some fsck-like process or something taking time or waiting for input.
>
> Note that everything works alright.  But I'm worried that this would
> fail on a new installation where the bootloader is missing :(

Where the bootloader is missing?  The bootloader cannot be missing or
the thing is not installed.  :-)

Ludo’.