Re: guix build gives `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:31:57PM +0000, Phil wrote:
> Thanks Leo - indeed it was so suprising that I thought it was referring
> to the root of the chroot used to build rather than just the root of
> Ubuntu.
> 
> This was a bad assumption on my behalf  as /homeless-shelter really did
> exist at my filesystem root (containing a single .config directory with
> 2 yamls in it related to the python dask package).
> 
> I moved the directory and everything is back to normal.
> 
> Even stranger the datestamp on the homeless shelter was from November
> 2021, so why it decided to start fail yesterday I have no idea.
> 
> Thanks again and sorry for the daft question - if I'd literally followed
> the advice in the error message I'd have resolved it myself!  Way too
> much overthinking on my behalf!

It's not daft! The situation is really surprising. The only good
explanation I can think of is that guix-daemon was used the the
"--disable-chroot" option. Do you remember if you used that option?