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Subject: bug#20757: "unable to fork" on armhf
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 21:44:08 +0200
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To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> I have an armhf marsboard that I'm trying to run guix on top of debian. I
> started by flashing a debian wheezy image, stripping out most of the
> packages, and upgrading to jessie. I installed using the 0.8.2 armhf bina=
ry.
> `guix pull` failed with the error "unable to fork: Invalid argument", and
> likewise `guix build hello` also failed.
>
> I ran `sudo strace -o log /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon
> --build-users-group=3Dguix-builder &`

Could you add -f so that child processes are traced?

  sudo strace -f -o log /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon \
     --build-users-group=3Dguix-builder &

The main process doesn=E2=80=99t do the interesting bits.

TIA!

Ludo=E2=80=99.