guix pull: cannot allocate memory

guix pull: cannot allocate memory

[ng0]

Is this exactly what Guile is telling me, "get more RAM / SWAP whatever"?

ng0@sharknado9001:~$ guix pull; guix package -i rxvt-unicode

Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.O9FRJW
From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
 ….tar.gz                                   981KiB/s 00:14 | 13.0MiB transferred
unpacking '/gnu/store/lqpb6cppk3h65q5y29dxrj060idqj60b-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivation will be built:
   /gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv
building path(s) `/gnu/store/5x386gcp93f3ms33s60d7q1ijmnllbml-guix-latest'
copying and compiling to '/gnu/store/5x386gcp93f3ms33s60d7q1ijmnllbml-guix-latest'...
loading...	 24.5% of 587 filesrandom seed for tests: 1492717246
loading...	 98.8% of 587 filesBacktrace:
In unknown file:
   ?: 19 [primitive-load-path "gnu/tests/install" ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 453: 18 [eval # ()]
 411: 17 [eval # #]
 387: 16 [eval # #]
 373: 15 [run-install # #]
 387: 14 [eval # #]
 387: 13 [eval # #]
 387: 12 [eval # #]
 411: 11 [eval # #]
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
 573: 10 [map #<procedure f5efd50 at ice-9/eval.scm:416:20 (a)> (# # # # ...)]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 387: 9 [eval # #]
 411: 8 [eval # #]
 411: 7 [eval # #]
 387: 6 [eval # #]
In unknown file:
   ?: 5 [force #<promise #<procedure 37fe390 at ice-9/eval.scm:416:20 ()>>]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 411: 4 [eval # #]
 411: 3 [eval # #]
In ice-9/r4rs.scm:
  90: 2 [dynamic-wind #<procedure f5ef990 at ice-9/eval.scm:416:20 ()> ...]
In ice-9/popen.scm:
  64: 1 [open-pipe* "r" "git" "ls-files"]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [open-process "r" "git" "ls-files"]

ERROR: In procedure open-process:
ERROR: In procedure open-process: Cannot allocate memory
builder for `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed with exit code 1
guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed
The following package will be installed:
   rxvt-unicode	9.22	/gnu/store/3475lgmchm6741k4qba2yjy7vzi3dvaj-rxvt-unicode-9.22

substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivations will be built:
   /gnu/store/n170839mwhhmafzybwfyvzvr2715v9i6-profile.drv
   /gnu/store/vsl5cawz5rnff8vnqiv6j6rpfg51fmn9-ca-certificate-bundle.drv
   /gnu/store/r6a0llypsadsdhjg1in0hdc2gkhy3ffd-info-dir.drv
   /gnu/store/jkdfspmg0zciy7wkwi8nhzf043nw6q5h-fonts-dir.drv
   /gnu/store/5iysifiijhbspq5rs0wfvq7x0b6gpfjp-manual-database.drv
creating manual page database for 1 packages...
1 package in profile
The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
   export TERMINFO_DIRS="/home/ng0/.guix-profile/share/terminfo${TERMINFO_DIRS:+:}$TERMINFO_DIRS"

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Re: guix pull: cannot allocate memory

[ng0]

ng0 transcribed 3.0K bytes:
> Is this exactly what Guile is telling me, "get more RAM / SWAP whatever"?
> 
> ERROR: In procedure open-process:
> ERROR: In procedure open-process: Cannot allocate memory
> builder for `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed with exit code 1
> guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed

Okay, I added a swap, and this time guix pull as unprivileged user succeded.
As root I had no problems before, same before the conversion to GuixSD.

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Re: guix pull: cannot allocate memory

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 08:03:08PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> ng0 transcribed 3.0K bytes:
> > Is this exactly what Guile is telling me, "get more RAM / SWAP whatever"?
> > 
> > ERROR: In procedure open-process:
> > ERROR: In procedure open-process: Cannot allocate memory
> > builder for `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed with exit code 1
> > guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed
> 
> Okay, I added a swap, and this time guix pull as unprivileged user succeded.
> As root I had no problems before, same before the conversion to GuixSD.

I'm curious, how much memory does the system have?

Re: guix pull: cannot allocate memory

[ng0]

Leo Famulari transcribed 0.7K bytes:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 08:03:08PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > ng0 transcribed 3.0K bytes:
> > > Is this exactly what Guile is telling me, "get more RAM / SWAP whatever"?
> > > 
> > > ERROR: In procedure open-process:
> > > ERROR: In procedure open-process: Cannot allocate memory
> > > builder for `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed with exit code 1
> > > guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed
> > 
> > Okay, I added a swap, and this time guix pull as unprivileged user succeded.
> > As root I had no problems before, same before the conversion to GuixSD.
> 
> I'm curious, how much memory does the system have?
> 

Smallest configuration at that host, 1024MB
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Re: guix pull: cannot allocate memory

[Ludovic Courtès]

ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> skribis:

> Is this exactly what Guile is telling me, "get more RAM / SWAP whatever"?
>
> ng0@sharknado9001:~$ guix pull; guix package -i rxvt-unicode
>
> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.O9FRJW
> From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>  ….tar.gz                                   981KiB/s 00:14 | 13.0MiB transferred
> unpacking '/gnu/store/lqpb6cppk3h65q5y29dxrj060idqj60b-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> The following derivation will be built:
>    /gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv
> building path(s) `/gnu/store/5x386gcp93f3ms33s60d7q1ijmnllbml-guix-latest'
> copying and compiling to '/gnu/store/5x386gcp93f3ms33s60d7q1ijmnllbml-guix-latest'...
> loading...	 24.5% of 587 filesrandom seed for tests: 1492717246
> loading...	 98.8% of 587 filesBacktrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 19 [primitive-load-path "gnu/tests/install" ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  453: 18 [eval # ()]
>  411: 17 [eval # #]
>  387: 16 [eval # #]
>  373: 15 [run-install # #]

[...]

> In ice-9/popen.scm:
>   64: 1 [open-pipe* "r" "git" "ls-files"]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [open-process "r" "git" "ls-files"]
>
> ERROR: In procedure open-process:
> ERROR: In procedure open-process: Cannot allocate memory
> builder for `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv' failed with exit code 1

I think it’s fork(2) returning ENOMEM.  Perhaps ‘dmesg’ would show more
details?  It could be that there were too many processes running or
something along these lines.

It’s “interesting” to see that we try to spawn Git while evaluating the
top level of (gnu tests install), I had never thought about it.  Not
great.

Ludo’.