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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: error: build failed: committing transaction: disk I/O error
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:08:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n35ngbu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761nlicxo.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:20:19 -0400")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> In recent weeks on my system, it has become fairly common for the daemon
> to get into a bad state, where all build attempts fail with messages
> like this:
>
> mhw:~/guix-core-updates$ ./pre-inst-env guix build -n emacs
> error (ignored): aborting transaction: cannot rollback - no transaction is active
> guix build: error: build failed: committing transaction: disk I/O error
> mhw:~/guix-core-updates$ 

(The message comes from SQLite.)

> Restarting 'guix-daemon' always fixes it, until the next time.  Note
> that this happens on the master branch too, not just core-updates.  This
> is on my MIPS system (YeeLoong 8101B with Loongson 2F CPU).  I'm not
> sure if that's relevant.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?

No, but could it have something to do with the file system or SQLite
issues encountered on MIPS?

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-10/msg00185.html

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-11 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11  4:20 error: build failed: committing transaction: disk I/O error Mark H Weaver
2014-03-11 11:08 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-03-19  6:52   ` Mark H Weaver

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