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Subject: bug#34402: Inferior channel (I believe 'inferior-for-channels'
	function specifically) sometimes fails
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:49:09 +0000 (GMT)
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 34402 <34402@debbugs.gnu.org>

Nope, there is nothing after the colon in the output when this error shows =
up.

Ok, I will run that next time I get this error.

On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:12:24 +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wro=
te:

> Hello,
>=20
> <pkill9@runbox.com> skribis:
>=20
> > Often I'll get this output when building a manifest* with an inferior:
> >
> > ```
> > itsme@antelope /tmp$ guix package -n -m example-inferior.scm=20
> > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gn=
u.org/git/guix.git'...
> > guix package: error: failed to load 'example-inferior.scm':
> > ```
>=20
> There=E2=80=99s nothing following the colon above?
>=20
> > I believe this is the 'inferior-for-channels' function that fails.
> >
> > After investigating a while back, it seems removing the relevant checko=
ut in ~/.cache/guix/checkouts temporarily fixes it, but the issue often com=
es back.
>=20
> I wonder if it could be <https://issues.guix.info/issue/34016>, though
> I=E2=80=99ve never experienced it in ~/.cache/guix, despite using =E2=80=
=98guix pull=E2=80=99 &
> co. a lot.
>=20
> Next time this happens, could you run:
>=20
>   strace -s 100 -o log guix package -n -m example-inferior.scm
>=20
> and post the last few hundred lines of =E2=80=98log=E2=80=99?
>=20
> Thanks,
> Ludo=E2=80=99.