bug#41710: Possibly found a bug while doing a "guix pull"

["Léon Lain Delysid" <leon.lain.delysid@gmail.com>]

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Hello,
Sorry for responding so late, I was busy otherwise.
I have more than enough RAM, 16 GB. And also lots of swap space. And my
/tmp takes 104KB of space.



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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:41 PM Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> Le 4 juin 2020 10:38:09 GMT-04:00, "Léon Lain Delysid" <
> leon.lain.delysid@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >Hello!
> >I just tried to "guix pull" on my Debian Buster GNU/Linux system. Twice
> >it
> >made the system completely freeze for a few seconds and then reboot.
> >And
> >that third time it didn't crash the system but the guix pull failed and
> >returned this error:
> >https://pastebin.com/vhDR8gDC
> >
> >Can somebody help me please?
> >
> >(Before doing the third "pull", I did an "apt update" and "upgrade",
> >but I
> >wasn't that much behind in updates, I had done it less than a week ago
> >last. My last "guix pull" was made at the same time as the "apt
> >update", a
> >few days ago.)
> >
> >Hoping I can resolve this soon or that my feedback was positive for the
> >development of Guix. =)
> >I can provide log debug info (if there is any) upon request.
> >
> >Best regards!
>
> Sorry pastebin is not tor friendly, I couldn't look at it.
>
> For the freezing part, could it be that you have relatively low free ram
> (<2GB) and no swap? Or maybe /tmp is mounted as a tmpfs and for some reason
> it takes a lot of space?
>
> You might need to use substitutes when runnning guix pull. I don't have
> that much ram either on some computers, so I always take a look at
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/guix-modular-master and choose the latest
> commit that was built for my architeeture. Then eg. guix pull
> --commit=c987b72
>
> This will allow guix to download substitutes for guix pull instead of
> building locally, which doesn't require any ram usage.
>
> HTH!
>

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