From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: bug#34402: Inferior channel (I believe 'inferior-for-channels' function specifically) sometimes fails Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:12:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87pns1t5iv.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsTNT-0002FL-BO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 09:13:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsTNS-0001z5-Au for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 09:13:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsTNO-0001wh-8w for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 09:13:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gsTNO-0002MJ-35 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 09:13:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: (pkill9's message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2019 11:11:39 +0000 (GMT)") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: pkill9@runbox.com Cc: 34402@debbugs.gnu.org Hello, skribis: > Often I'll get this output when building a manifest* with an inferior: > > ``` > itsme@antelope /tmp$ guix package -n -m example-inferior.scm=20 > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.= org/git/guix.git'... > guix package: error: failed to load 'example-inferior.scm': > ``` There=E2=80=99s nothing following the colon above? > I believe this is the 'inferior-for-channels' function that fails. > > After investigating a while back, it seems removing the relevant checkout= in ~/.cache/guix/checkouts temporarily fixes it, but the issue often comes= back. I wonder if it could be , though I=E2=80=99ve never experienced it in ~/.cache/guix, despite using =E2=80=98= guix pull=E2=80=99 & co. a lot. Next time this happens, could you run: strace -s 100 -o log guix package -n -m example-inferior.scm and post the last few hundred lines of =E2=80=98log=E2=80=99? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.