Thorsten Wilms writes:
> Hi! It seems every few weeks i’m thrown into a initramfs prompt, as > root got mounted read-only. The way out is always running fsck, which > reports errors and offers fixes that I either can’t map to anything, or > that refer to paths that belong to guix. Usually only below /gnu/store, > but this time also var/guix. > > Now `guix pull` fails with: > ``` > ;;; WARNING: loading compiled > file > /gnu/store/8bsnz1fk330qbn1p8k18i0j11vld4jxd-guix-module-union/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache/guix/build-system/gnu.go > failed: ;;; In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: not an ELF file > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: Git > error: invalid data in index - incorrect header signature > ``` > > At first, I focused on the warning (sorry, leoprikler) ... the same git > error happens when using an older guix. > > Now a fix for that would be great, but independent of that, I have to > wonder how one should go about reinstalling guix on a foreign distro. I > cannot umount or remount and remove /gnu/store! > > Even after `sudo systemctl stop gnu-store.mount`, /gnu/store is busy. > `fuser -kim /gnu/store/` will throw me out of the session, even though > I would think everything that belongs to it is part of the host (Ubuntu > Unity 20.10). No sudo umount or remount or rm -rf allowed, /gnu/store > remains ro and busy. Short of booting another system (say an USB > stick), is there a way to clear /gnu/store? Or to safely replace its > content? Hi, Thorsten I was install guix on a ubuntu server and work right, can you reproduce you guix installation process? maybe the fault happen in install guix process. ------ Best reguards, c4droid