My system administrator just installed guix for me thanks to it being so easy on Ubuntu.
To show it off, I wanted to make a quick demonstration to a colleague on how it makes it easy to create a reproducible python environment using `guix shell`. That command didn't seem to exist on the version of guix available from ubuntu (1.3.0). Not anticipating any problems, I thought I just needed to run `guix pull`. #+BEGIN_QUOTE me@ubuntu:~$ guix pull Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 8548ba5 (45,920 new commits)... Building from this channel: ... #+END_QUOTE That errored out for me at the "computing derivation" stage the first time I ran it. #+BEGIN_QUOTE ./guix/store.scm:1419:15: ERROR: 1. &store-protocol-error: message: "`/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly" status: 1 guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/4fcbgpasw95hrbz7n7pnx6wnsc174vds-compute-guix-derivation' failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "8548ba5847417eabe14aa08fa9861f91743bd3a1"; system: "x86_64-linux"; host version: "1.3.0"; pull-version: 1). Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>. #+END_QUOTE Thankfully, running `guix pull` again immediately afterwards worked. This left me with the following familiar output. #+BEGIN_QUOTE building profile with 1 package... hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running: GUIX_PROFILE="/home/u548962/.config/guix/current" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"'. hint: After setting `PATH', run `hash guix' to make sure your shell refers to `/home/u548962/.config/guix/current/bin/guix'. #+END_QOUTE Being that this is a foreign distro, I thought I needed to run the hint lines to get the updated guix executable in my current terminal. Instead, now I see: #+BEGIN_QUOTE me@ubuntu:~$ GUIX_PROFILE="/home/me/.config/guix/current" me@ubuntu:~$ . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" me@ubuntu:~$ hash guix me@ubuntu:~$ guix shell --help *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated Aborted (core dumped) u548962@mdu20prst01:~$ guix --help *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated Aborted (core dumped) u548962@mdu20prst01:~$ guix *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated Aborted (core dumped) #+END_QUOTE I was hopeful, but now the guix command does nothing at all. General Business