From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:28:45 -0600
Message-ID: <db7edec055f648e5d94f43afd0c8b8a72b66737a.camel@gmail.com>
References: <20190922185206.3ed64af4@interia.pl> <8736gorzqn.fsf@nckx>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Return-path: <bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38682)
 by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
 (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1iC6bX-0007DS-DP
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:29:04 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
 (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1iC6bW-0006Lz-Ad
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:29:03 -0400
Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53934)
 by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16)
 (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>)
 id 1iC6bW-0006Lp-6k
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:29:02 -0400
Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2)
 (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1iC6bW-00026N-1M
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:29:02 -0400
Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <handler.37482.B37482.15691769378064@debbugs.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <8736gorzqn.fsf@nckx>
List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/bug-guix>,
 <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix>
List-Post: <mailto:bug-guix@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix>,
 <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: "bug-Guix" <bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>, 37482@debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>

On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:45 +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for
GNU Guix wrote:
> Jan,
> 
> Thanks for the report, and sorry you had to learn this the hard 
> way.
> 
> Jan Wielkiewicz 写道：
> > I've recently tried to reconfigure my system, but after about 3 
> > hours
> > of building libreoffice, the system froze for 2 hours and then 
> > guix
> > threw:
> 
> […]
> 
> > g++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
> > Please submit a full bug report,
> > with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> > See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
> 
> This message and the freezing above is a tell-tale sign of OOM 
> (out-of-memory).  If you check your dmesg or /var/log/messages at 
> that time, I'm almost certain you'll see the OOM killer plot its 
> dastardly deeds.
> 
> > My system is an old ThinkPad with 2GB of RAM and Intel Centrino 
> > Duo
> > processor, but I'm unsure if this was the cause of the build 
> > failing.
> 
> You may be sure.
> 
> 2 GiB of RAM is simply not enough to build many packages these 
> days.  That's the world we live in.  There's nothing Guix can do 
> to change that.
> 
> You can restrict the number of parallel builds and jobs by 
> respectively passing --max-jobs=1 and --cores=1 to the daemon. 
> You can make this permanent by setting (extra-options …) in your 
> system configuration.
> 
> Even then, some complex executables will simply fail to link with 
> so little RAM.

You can get around too little RAM by using swap, correct? Partition ~8GB as
swap and add (swap-devices) in the configuration.