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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: 24053@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24053: guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:18:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87popvlpx9.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9bhmvz3.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:19:28 -0400")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> On my i686 GuixSD machine, the following command consistently fails:
>
>   mhw@jojen:~$ guix download file:///home/mhw/texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
>   guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe
>
> The file is 2071190200 bytes, which is about 73 MiB less than 2 GiB.
> I have 2 GiB of RAM and 4 GiB of swap.
>
> My guix client is v0.10.0-1899-g0f971a0.  My guix-daemon is 0.10.0.

I tried adding the same file using 'add-to-store' directly from the
REPL.  'guile' exited with status code 141, without printing an error
message:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
mhw@jojen:~$ guix/pre-inst-env guile
GNU Guile 2.0.11
Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (guix)
scheme@(guile-user)> (define s (open-connection))
scheme@(guile-user)> (add-to-store s "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz" #f "sha256" "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz")
mhw@jojen:~$ echo $?
141
mhw@jojen:~$ ls -l texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhw mhw 2071190200 Jul 20 01:08 texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

       Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-30  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-22 17:19 bug#24053: guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686 Mark H Weaver
2016-07-30  4:18 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-07-30 13:14   ` Ludovic Courtès

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