Re: [EXT] Unable to reconfigure guix system (wrong type to apply)

[Thompson, David]

Hi Luis,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 9:32 AM Luis Felipe
<luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> But now I'm getting the following error when I try to reconfigure the system:
>
> ★★★★★★★★★★
> sudo guix system reconfigure my-system.scm
>
>
> Backtrace:
>           16 (primitive-load "/home/yo/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
> In guix/ui.scm:
>    2263:7 15 (run-guix . _)
>   2226:10 14 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1752:10 13 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> In guix/status.scm:
>     835:3 12 (_)
>     815:4 11 (call-with-status-report _ _)
> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>    1274:4 10 (_)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1752:10  9 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>    659:37  8 (thunk)
>    1298:8  7 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7fc3ad9a2d50 at g…> …)
>   2168:25  6 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7fc3ad78edc0> …)
> In guix/scripts/system.scm:
>   1298:15  5 (_ _)
>     829:5  4 (perform-action reconfigure #<<image> name: #f format:…> …)
> In guix/scripts/system/reconfigure.scm:
>     375:4  3 (check-forward-update _ #:current-channels _)
>     375:4  2 (check-forward-update _ #:current-channels _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> Wrong type to apply: (#<<channel> name: guix url: 
> "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git"; branch: "master" commit: 
> "3f171587bc6a47bb056f3e699e17e05f5832aea5" introduction: #f location: 
> ((filename . "gnu/services.scm") (line . 466) (column . 5))>)
> ★★★★★★★★★★
>
> Is this a problem in Guix's channel definition?

This looks like the problem described in
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/57480 in which the regression was
identified and reverted.  Try 'guix pull' again and see if your system
reconfigure works this time.

Hope this helps,

- Dave