Re: guix pull error : In procedure make_objcode_from_file: object file too small (0 bytes)

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Subject: Re: guix pull error : In procedure make_objcode_from_file: object file too small (0 bytes)

Local Time: 25 July 2016 9:49 PM

UTC Time: 25 July 2016 20:49

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Hi,

tk0 <address@hidden> skribis:

> After having to roll back from a weird situation -- in which guix developed a problem mounting my virtual filesystem at boot -- doing a 'guix pull' produces the following error:

Could you send the whole ‘guix pull’ output, so we see the context?

Does the error systematically happen?

Thanks in advance,

Ludo’.

Hi Ludo' ,

Sorry for the delay, it was the somewhat tricky to reproduce what led to the error since the 'guix system' command got disabled and the old vm became useless. Now, I made a new image and experimented a bit.

The initial problem was that I have added the '9p' filesystem (this is used for path sharing between the guest and the host in a kvm setup) to the config file without setting the 'check?' field to #f . On next reboot, the 'fsck' failed to the Bourneish shell since there is no fsck.9p. I have managed login into the system by ',q'-tting my way out of a cascade of Bournish Guile REPLs, however, once i logged in,  the guix system command was exiting with the 'command not found' so I could not reconfigure to an operative state.

Interestingly, I have tried to roll-back to a previously functioning state in the grub menu, but despite succeeding to login without errors, the 'system' command of guix was still unavailable.  I guess this means that the roll-back wasn't purely functional and state-free. The  'guix pull' problem described initially seems to be only a symptom.

Now that I laid out the full problem, please let me know if you need any more diagnostics.

All the best,

tk