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

[Bengt Richter]

On +2019-08-29 14:41:51 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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’.
>

Had you considered the case where someone[1] is running a binary install
on a foreign distro booted by refind or a bootloader not in your official list?

[1] guess who ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter