bug#53296: Intermittent segfaults when parsing (?) custom package from repo.

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Any update on this one?

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53296

If there’s no reliable way to reproduce it, I’ll close the bug soon.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Hi,
>
> elaexuotee@wilsonb.com skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Here’s how I tried (and failed) to reproduce the segfault:
>>> 
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> $ find /tmp/test
>>> /tmp/test
>>> /tmp/test/gnu
>>> /tmp/test/gnu/packages
>>> /tmp/test/gnu/packages/jsoftware.scm
>>> 
>>> $ guix build -L /tmp/test jsoftware
>>> /tmp/test/gnu/packages/jsoftware.scm:76:0: warning: source expression failed to match any pattern
>>> guix build: error: jsoftware: nekonata pako
>>
>> Is that an Esperanto locale?!
>
> Jes!
>
>> The segfault is pretty inconsistent on my end. Unfortunately, the only
>> "reliable" way to produce I know at the moment is to badger the build command
>> repeatedly and get (un)lucky.
>
> OK, please let us know when you have a reliable reproducer, or GDB
> backtraces, things like that.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.