Subject: Re: bug#45992: A "live" profile is missing

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:57:46 +0100

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 01:56:13PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> # realpath ~root/.guix-profile 
>> /gnu/store/1ph7vxq4hhqr1hjkmgin16p1cqx3v904-profile
>
> I checked, and this store item is not in the Guix database.

Could it be that you (1) configured a checkout with the wrong
--localstatedir, (2) started guix-daemon from that checkout, and (3) ran
‘guix gc’ or equivalent?

The ‘configure’ script normally prevents #1, but we never know.

Thanks,
Ludo’.