On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:21:58 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Kai, > Hello Ludovic, > Kai Mertens skribis: > > > unfortunately, I do not manage to update my GNU Guix version via “guix > > pull”. The command fails with the listed message after being executed > > for about 16hours. > > Did you enable substitutes from ? > See . > hmm, I did not enable substitutes explicitly in the command line, but as far as I remember, I allowed guix to use substitutes when I set it up some time ago. Is there a handy command that helps me to check the current configuration? Anyway, I was not using option --no-substitutes. > If it run for 16 hours, it may be that substitutes were disabled or > unavailable for some reason, and that Guix went ahead and started > building lots of things, eventually failing. Hmm, shall I try guix pull --substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org next time? > > Perhaps the lines before the error showed the actual build issue? Ahh, you are right. And please accept my apologies, as I did not see the essential hint: > command "make" "check" "-j" "2" failed with status 2 > note: build failure may have been caused by lack of free disk space > builder for `/gnu/store/wswfwmyrbd39blimabdkm46z6b138rlc-tar-1.32.drv' failed with exit code 1 > @ build-failed /gnu/store/wswfwmyrbd39blimabdkm46z6b138rlc-tar-1.32.drv - 1 builder for `/gnu/store/wswfwmyrbd39blimabdkm46z6b138rlc-tar-1.32.drv' failed with exit code 1 > cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/fpfj0ds2vd7vapp54dkf09jipl0mkzgw-ghostscript-9.27.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built > [...] Indeed, at the time of failure, the root partition had only about 2.8G space left. But /tmp had something like 9G in spare. I wonder if I can tell guix to use as much tmp-space as applicable? > > > guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program > > '/gnu/store/vi260mff4pp4svm3rwz7lcq7kcdxa03k-compute-guix-derivation' > > failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: > > "f0bbf894a1f935c1e0109f35899acb6dfcb977f2"; system: "i686-linux"; > > host version: "2e62ba46e2dc6f27398a65eb157b4ce711ff0e6b"; > > pull-version: 1). Please report it by email to . > > I tried reproducing it by doing: > > guix pull --commit=2e62ba46e2dc6f27398a65eb157b4ce711ff0e6b > -p /tmp/old-guix /tmp/old-guix/bin/guix pull > --commit=f0bbf894a1f935c1e0109f35899acb6dfcb977f2 -p /tmp/old-to-new > > but that worked. > > So I guess the problem has to do with a transient build failure or > something. > I will try to enlarge the root partition and try again. Would you mind to give a recommendation for its size? Thanks for your immediate, kind response!! best regards Kai -- Kai Mertens OpenPGP Key-ID: 0x40B15AB4B05B5BF1 on keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint = 7C83 0A80 01FF 679C 6E8E AFD3 40B1 5AB4 B05B 5BF1 What is that? Please check: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/