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-rw-r--r--gnu/installer/final.scm10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/installer/final.scm b/gnu/installer/final.scm
index f5601d8649..069426a3b8 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/final.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/final.scm
@@ -221,10 +221,18 @@ or #f. Return #t on success and #f on failure."
;; alive.
(stop-service 'guix-daemon)
- ;; Restore the database and restart it.
+ ;; Restore the database and restart it. As part of restoring the
+ ;; database, remove the WAL and shm files in case they were left
+ ;; behind after guix-daemon was stopped. Failing to do so,
+ ;; sqlite might behave as if transactions that appear in the WAL
+ ;; file were committed. (See <https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html>.)
(installer-log-line "restoring store database from '~a'"
saved-database)
(copy-file saved-database database-file)
+ (for-each (lambda (suffix)
+ (false-if-exception
+ (delete-file (string-append database-file suffix))))
+ '("-wal" "-shm"))
(start-service 'guix-daemon)
;; Finally umount the cow-store and exit the container.