This is on a fresh Debian 10 instance on Amazon web services. Update Debian: sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --assume-yes update sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --assume-yes install gnupg git nscd postgresql-client wget 'https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145' -qO - | sudo -i gpg --import - wget 'https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=127547' -qO - | sudo -i gpg --import - sudo ./guix-install-mod.sh <==== modified guix install script; modified for non-interactive use ## using guile-3.0.2 guix install glibc-utf8-locales sudo guix install glibc-utf8-locales ##with only 2 programs in profile: admin@ip-172-31-20-138:~$ guix package --list-installed hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: guix install glibc-utf8-locales export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. glibc-utf8-locales 2.31 out /gnu/store/rgydar9dfvflqqz2irgh7njj34amaxc6-glibc-utf8-locales-2.31 artanis 0.4.1 out /gnu/store/np3v3bifspgqslc7xl2rz2sg08q2wvzq-artanis-0.4.1 =================================================================================================== admin@ip-172-31-20-138:~$ guix pull hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: guix install glibc-utf8-locales export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at ' https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 7b59508 (6,374 new commits)... Building from this channel: guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 7b59508 substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% config.scm 501B 29KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% git.scm 101B 68KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% hash.scm 132B 90KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% module-import 2KiB 191KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% module-import 2KiB 354KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% module-import-compiled 1.5MiB 1.5MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% module-import-compiled 1.5MiB 2.2MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% building /gnu/store/a6678c6wksl1pf8vch9sqfp6nzh1bvjc-compute-guix-derivation.drv... substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% gnutls-3.6.16-doc 1.0MiB 2.0MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% gnutls-3.6.16 1.7MiB 2.8MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% libx11-1.7.1A 693KiB 1.02GiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% gnutls-3.6.16-debug 2.3MiB 7.3MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% libx11-1.7.1A-doc 1.2MiB 1.4MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.-Backtrace: 14 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/d8l53x32a5plllhrykgc1sqa45h10idv-compute-guix-derivation") In ice-9/eval.scm: 155:9 13 (_ _) 159:9 12 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(# ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?)) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 152:2 11 (with-fluid* _ _ _) 152:2 10 (with-fluid* _ _ _) In ./guix/store.scm: 2113:24 9 (run-with-store # _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ #:target _) 1950:8 8 (_ _) In ./guix/gexp.scm: 275:18 7 (_ _) 1156:2 6 (_ _) 1022:2 5 (_ _) 868:4 4 (_ _) In ./guix/store.scm: 1998:12 3 (_ #) 1400:13 2 (map/accumulate-builds # # ?) 1396:5 1 (map/accumulate-builds # # ?) 1411:15 0 (_ # _ _) ./guix/store.scm:1411:15: ERROR: 1. &store-protocol-error: message: "unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory" status: 1 guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/d8l53x32a5plllhrykgc1sqa45h10idv-compute-guix-derivation' failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "7b59508ca711d1fe299de3f8d9710da36aeb6829"; system: "x86_64-linux"; host version: "1.3.0"; pull-version: 1). Please report it by email to .