On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:48:30AM -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> [1] Out of no where, when I did `guix environment foo`, I got:
> 
> \note: build failure may have been caused by lack of free disk space
> builder for `/gnu/store/2ajnpcblwpgzjdhx3050qapy3li31pr5-profile.drv'
> failed with exit code 1
> 
> [2] When I redid the command 2nd time, I got:
> 
> error (ignored): cannot unlink `/tmp/guix-build-profile.drv-0':
> Read-only file system
> error (ignored): cannot unlink
> `/gnu/store/2ajnpcblwpgzjdhx3050qapy3li31pr5-profile.drv.chroot/tmp/guix-build-profile.drv-0':
> Read-only file system
> guix environment: error: cannot link
> `/gnu/store/.links/1jd7y4xvj853m4aygnyixci5h2y7a1py6iavp9kwzvcinyniqwbd' to
> `/gnu/store/3klrs2bkcmypwnmx61q24rc7csgk19f8-profile/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/emotes/face-smile-big
> symbolic.symbolic.png': Read-only file system
> 
> [3] When I redid the command 3rd time, I got:
> 
> guix environment: error: fport_read: Connection reset by peer
> 
> [4] When I redid the command 4th time, I got:
> 
> guix environment: error: failed to connect to
> `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': Connection refused
> 
> [5] So I tried to restart guix-daemon and got a weird output:
> 
> sudo: unable to open /var/run/sudo/ts/rg: Read-only file system
> Password:
> Service guix-daemon is not running.
> Service guix-daemon is currently disabled.
> 
> [6] Then I tried to enable the daemon:
> 
> sudo: unable to open /var/run/sudo/ts/rg: Read-only file system
> Password:
> Enabled service guix-daemon.
> 
> [7] Then I tried to start the daemon:
> 
> sudo: unable to open /var/run/sudo/ts/rg: Read-only file system
> Password:
> Service guix-daemon has been started.
> 
> [8] Now, I retried the `guix environment foo` and got same error as in 4.
> 
> [9] At this point, all the other running applications started to throw
> errors regarding read-only file-system. I could not even save the above
> errors in a text editor. Glad that I had the IceCat running and I was
> able to email it to myself. IceCat wasn't affected, as I think the
> web-process was containerized. Everything was back to normal after restart.
> 
> [10] I am experiencing this situation for the 3rd time this month. It
> never happened before this month.
> 
> INFO:
> 
> `guix describe`
> 
>   guix dad963a
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     commit: dad963a4393ea51409baa63817b26b449ed58338
> 
> Both my user profile and root profile are on the same commit.
> 
> Regards,
> RG.
> 


What's the output of 'df -h' and 'df -i'? There's not much change in
error message if you're out of space or just out of inodes.


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