Oh! Yes, of course, I see!
Yes, those little credit card sized one-chip computers are very low on
resources.
So I think it shouldn't build the programs itself but rather download the
binaries everytime I "guix pull". What command line option should I use to
only download the binaries instead of building everything myself? Could you
please give me the command?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 14:47 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 02:28:33PM +0200, Léon Lain Delysid wrote:
> > Hello! I'm having a problem on a Banana Pi M3 that runs Debian 10 Buster
> > (ARM like instruction set).
> > "guix pull" always results in failure with this message:
> >
> > building
> > /gnu/store/3has7cgd39q9jb9a78vdzjcyycsa6z96-guix-packages-base.drv...
> >  76% [#######################################################
> >    ]builder for
> > `/gnu/store/3has7cgd39q9jb9a78vdzjcyycsa6z96-guix-packages-base.drv'
> failed
> > due to signal 9 (Killed)
> > build of
> /gnu/store/3has7cgd39q9jb9a78vdzjcyycsa6z96-guix-packages-base.drv
> > failed
> > View build log at
> >
> '/var/log/guix/drvs/3h/as7cgd39q9jb9a78vdzjcyycsa6z96-guix-packages-base.drv.bz2'.
> > cannot build derivation
> > `/gnu/store/z728xwhxnaczkjky15939zjp4v2pvrld-guix-cli.drv': 1
> dependencies
> > couldn't be built
> > building
> > /gnu/store/rmbf654gah845f3hbzn9hdamn3xn1s25-guix-config-source.drv...
> > cannot build derivation
> >
> `/gnu/store/1i3w8dgf5lzapb8l59i3lriskcd8q30c-guix-packages-base-modules.drv':
> > 1 dependencies couldn't be built
> > cannot build derivation
> > `/gnu/store/4rzrb0xwgh2achzijn6fsdkhgqych6br-guix-packages.drv': 1
> > dependencies couldn't be built
> > cannot build derivation
> > `/gnu/store/4hk3v9q8nlzy18xg6cklmrv1x1hi1f4j-guix-system-tests.drv': 1
> > dependencies couldn't be built
> > cannot build derivation
> > `/gnu/store/ha53vvwh6v1d68v1kj5m43csinxlrflc-guix-system.drv': 1
> > dependencies couldn't be built
> > cannot build derivation
> >
> `/gnu/store/3q6g7ppayihip0wxhghwkq2nc0qg8kd9-guix-fae72ebb4-modules.drv': 1
> > dependencies couldn't be built
> > cannot build derivation
> > `/gnu/store/gl3gim8cd8p920iw3m5qwdyv6zvlhwnv-guix-fae72ebb4.drv': 1
> > dependencies couldn't be built
> > cannot build derivation
> > `/gnu/store/85vkb01zgkfmy902m352hjcv35d7hzqb-profile.drv': 1 dependencies
> > couldn't be built
> > guix pull: error: build of
> > `/gnu/store/85vkb01zgkfmy902m352hjcv35d7hzqb-profile.drv' failed1
> >
> >
> >
> > What can I do? Some help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Léon
>
> The signal 9 (killed) makes me think a C++ program killed. I checked
> wikipedia and it says the Banana Pi M3 has 2GB of RAM. Was there
> anything else running at the time? 'guix pull' can be resource
> intensive, especially on lower powered machines.
>
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