bug#55232: failed to compute the derivation for Guix

[Maxime Devos]

dabbede@gmail.com schreef op ma 02-05-2022 om 23:04 [+0200]:
> Dear Guix community,
> 
> I was trying to install guix package manager on a "foreign
> distribution", in particular Ubuntu 20.04 under WSL2 (Windows).
> 
> WSL is not a normal linux distribution (the kernel and the init file
> are shipped by Microsoft), but despite this I was able to complete
> the setup using the script on guix website. The deamon must be
> started manually, but this is a minor issue. 
> The issue comes when I try to execute "guix pull" (both from standard
> user and root).  compute-guix-derivation fails complaining for a
> bug...
> Here below the output to terminal

See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55066.  Summarised: just run "guix
pull" again.  Also, the error message can probably be improved (albeit
not perfectly) by <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50238>.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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