bug#60141: Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on fresh Ubuntu 22.04 guix install

bug#60141: Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on fresh Ubuntu 22.04 guix install

[Andrews, Kyle (KC) via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

My system administrator just installed guix for me thanks to it being so easy on Ubuntu.

To show it off, I wanted to make a quick demonstration to a colleague on how it makes it easy to create a reproducible python environment using `guix shell`. That command didn't seem to exist on the version of guix available from ubuntu (1.3.0). Not anticipating any problems, I thought I just needed to run `guix pull`.

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
me@ubuntu:~$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 8548ba5 (45,920 new commits)...
Building from this channel:
...
#+END_QUOTE

That errored out for me at the "computing derivation" stage the first time I ran it. 

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
./guix/store.scm:1419:15: ERROR:
  1. &store-protocol-error:
      message: "`/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly"
      status: 1
guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/4fcbgpasw95hrbz7n7pnx6wnsc174vds-compute-guix-derivation'
failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "8548ba5847417eabe14aa08fa9861f91743bd3a1"; system: "x86_64-linux";
host version: "1.3.0"; pull-version: 1).
Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>.
#+END_QUOTE

Thankfully, running `guix pull` again immediately afterwards worked. This left me with the following familiar output.

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
building profile with 1 package...
hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running:

     GUIX_PROFILE="/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"
     . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"'.

hint: After setting `PATH', run `hash guix' to make sure your shell refers to `/home/u548962/.config/guix/current/bin/guix'.
#+END_QOUTE

 Being that this is a foreign distro, I thought I needed to run the hint lines to get the updated guix executable in my current terminal.

Instead, now I see:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
me@ubuntu:~$ GUIX_PROFILE="/home/me/.config/guix/current"
me@ubuntu:~$ . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
me@ubuntu:~$ hash guix
me@ubuntu:~$ guix shell --help
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
u548962@mdu20prst01:~$ guix --help
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
u548962@mdu20prst01:~$ guix
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
#+END_QUOTE

I was hopeful, but now the guix command does nothing at all.



General Business

bug#60141: Follow-up

[Andrews, Kyle (KC) via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

I moved .config/guix to .config/guix.bkp and that allowed me to execute the basic guix 1.3.0 commands again. However, whatever I create the result is always the same. I get segmentation fault (core dumped). For example:

$ guix install hello
$ {{source the profile}}
$ hello
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

General Business

bug#60141: Follow-up

[Andrews, Kyle (KC) via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

My system administrator let me know that the terminal I was presented with was sandboxed by RStudio Server (not running on Guix) and that this was responsible for causing the error.

I was able to run the hello command from an unsandboxed shell. I was also able to pull the latest version of guix using the same method.


General Business

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrews, Kyle (KC) 
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 5:28 PM
To: 60141@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Follow-up

I moved .config/guix to .config/guix.bkp and that allowed me to execute the basic guix 1.3.0 commands again. However, whatever I create the result is always the same. I get segmentation fault (core dumped). For example:

$ guix install hello
$ {{source the profile}}
$ hello
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

General Business

bug#60141: Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on fresh Ubuntu 22.04 guix install

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews@dow.com> skribis:

> My system administrator let me know that the terminal I was presented with was sandboxed by RStudio Server (not running on Guix) and that this was responsible for causing the error.
>
> I was able to run the hello command from an unsandboxed shell. I was also able to pull the latest version of guix using the same method.

Thanks for reporting back.  My guess would be that RStudio Server was
setting ‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH’, which in turn caused ‘guix’ to use the wrong
shared library at run-time, leading to that segfault.

I gather we can close this issue now, thanks.

Ludo’.