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"error: make-custom-binary-output-port: unbound variable" after guix home reconfigure

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From: kristofer <at> hjelmtorp.se
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: "error: make-custom-binary-output-port: unbound variable" after
 guix home reconfigure
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 12:08:58 +0200 (CEST)

Hello everyone!

I have somehow managed to get my Guix install into an erroneous state.

After running a "guix home reconfigure" I now get this error backtraces error everytime I try to to anything with guix except "guix --help". Which also means I can't do a roll-back (or at least I have not managed to do it).

I'm running Guix on a foreign distro (Debian container on a Chromebook).

dev <at> penguin:~ $ guix pull
Backtrace:
          11 (primitive-load "/home/dev/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
In guix/ui.scm:
   2312:7 10 (run-guix . _)
  2275:10  9 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1755:12  8 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
  1749:15  7 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7f342cb121e0 at ic…> …)
In guix/store.scm:
   662:15  6 (call-with-store #<procedure 7f342ebcd1e0 at guix/scrip…>)
    575:2  5 (open-connection _ #:port _ #:reserve-space? _ # _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1755:12  4 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In guix/store.scm:
   582:19  3 (_)
   942:11  2 (buffering-output-port _ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1676:22  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1674:22  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)

ice-9/boot-9.scm:1674:22: In procedure raise-exception:
error: make-custom-binary-output-port: unbound variable

This is the third time I have managed to get into this state.
The first time I had to uninstall and re-install Guix completely, which fixed it. The second time I had Guix installed in to "~/guix-profile/bin" and could use that to roll-back my home environment. 

But this time I don't have that. So I would appreciate any guidance on how to diagnose this and if there are way to get my out of this state without having to uninstall and re-install Guix.

Best Regards 
Kristofer

Message #8 received at 70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kristofer Hjelmtorp <kristofer.hjelmtorp <at> mailbox.org>
To: "70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Same situation in GuixSD install
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 10:53:34 +0200 (CEST)

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I now managed to get the same state on my GuixSD machine.
I can do a "sudo guix system reconfigure" but I can't handle my users guix command.
 
Are re-installation the only option?
 
 

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Message #11 received at 70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: Kristofer Hjelmtorp <kristofer.hjelmtorp <at> mailbox.org>
Cc: "70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#70781: Same situation in GuixSD install
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:15:45 +0200

Hello Kristofer.  Even though I do not understand at all how to get into
such a state, it appears using an older guix has helped you before, so
you could try running
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/dev/current-guix-<SOME-NUMBER>-link/bin/guix
instead of guix.

Regards,
Florian

Message #14 received at 70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kristofer Hjelmtorp <kristofer.hjelmtorp <at> mailbox.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: "70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <70781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#70781: Same situation in GuixSD install
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 21:57:59 +0200 (CEST)

Hi Florian

Thanks for the response.

With your help I managed to fix my GuixSD install at least.
I couldn't use the "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/dev/current-guix-<SOME-NUMBER>-link/bin/guix" they gave me the same error. But I noticed that there where older Guix Home configuration laying around there and after activating one of those I could roll-back. 

I think the issue was that I had added "guile-next" to my Guix Home config.

> On 05/14/2024 11:15 AM CEST pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello Kristofer.  Even though I do not understand at all how to get into
> such a state, it appears using an older guix has helped you before, so
> you could try running
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/dev/current-guix-<SOME-NUMBER>-link/bin/guix
> instead of guix.
> 
> Regards,
> Florian

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