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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