Re: How to repair/reinstall guix on foreign distro

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> writes:

> It does however claim that all except one power cylce has been 
> an unsafe
> shutdown, even though I had only a few hard resets and usually 
> shutdown
> by issuing `poweroff`.

That’s worrying.  “unsafe shutdown” leads to file system 
corruption, and Guix doesn’t like that at all.

> I would still like to have a minimal invasive way to get beyond:
> ```
> guix pull: error: Git error: invalid data in index - incorrect 
> header
> signature
> ```

Try erasing the git cache at ~/.cache/guix/checkouts first.

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Ricardo