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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: bug#27684: Can't build disk-images or vm-images on core-updates
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:14:57 +0200
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Hi Leo,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:57:21 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> Both `guix system disk-image` and `guix system vm-image` fail for me on
> core-updates. Read-only VMs seem to work fine. I'm currently checking to
> see if it fails when building on GuixSD.
> 
> I'm using x86_64-linux on a foreign distro with Linux 4.12.1. The host
> filesystem is ext4. I'm building a kernel on GuixSD so I can test it
> there.
> 
> I changed the value of 'memory-size' to 4096 (4 GB) in (gnu build vm)
> for some of my tests, but the problem persists. I also tried using QEMU
> without any of the bug-fix patches, but no joy.

Does the system image work when you run it on the bare metal (without qemu or anything)?