Hi Maxim, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes:
> I just sent a patch now, but here's a bit more background on what led to > it. Nice find! I'm unable to test out the patch right now on my original use case as I soft bricked my laptop fiddling around with coreboot. And I'm having some issues with my external flasher. > The issue seems to be with: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > ;; If a previous installation was attempted, make sure we start anew; in > ;; particular, we don't want to keep a store database that might not > ;; correspond to what we're actually putting in the store. > (let ((state (string-append target "/var/guix"))) > (when (file-exists? state) > (delete-file-recursively state))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Which is part of the install procedure (which gets called when using > 'guix system init /some/target'). So your guess was correct :-). Yay! > To confirm this was the case, I did: > > sudo btrfs subvolume create /tmp/toto > mkdir /tmp/tata > sudo mount -o subvol=/tmp/toto /dev/mapper/cryptroot /tmp/tata > > sudo -E guix repl >> ,import (guix build utils) >> (delete-file-recursively "/tmp/tata/") > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception: > In procedure rmdir: Device or resource busy > > Bingo! > > Reading the docstring of delete-file-recursively, it says it should > "report but ignore errors", so that's a bug. Yeah, that's is the same error I get when running guix init. So this sounds like it will fix my issue! Thanks for the speedy fix. -- s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g
