From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Failed to set up the build environment =?utf-8?Q?for=E2=80=A6?= Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:59:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87y503mtkk.fsf@yeeloong.lan> References: <87txaue9dp.fsf@serenity.home> <87k3bq6vj1.fsf@gnu.org> <20140320143802.GA22707@debian> <87fvmcycac.fsf@gnu.org> <20140320211554.GA14256@debian> <87ob10v9a3.fsf@gnu.org> <20140321123120.GA20520@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <87zjkj4sy0.fsf@gnu.org> <878us3o8sg.fsf@yeeloong.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WR1rU-0002H4-9D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WR1rP-00006u-AJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878us3o8sg.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:45:03 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > >> Andreas Enge skribis: >> >>>> Another idea: does your machine have /dev/kvm? >>> >>> No. >> >> That=E2=80=99s indeed the problem: >> >>> 20584 stat("/dev/kvm", 0x7fff2745d348) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or = directory) >>> 20584 futex(0x7f01cf335404, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) =3D 0 >>> 20584 write(2, "build error: getting attributes "..., 78) =3D 78 >>> 20584 exit_group(189) =3D ? >> >> For now, the =E2=80=9Csolution=E2=80=9D is to create it like this: >> >> sudo mknod /dev/kvm c 10 232 > > This is very troubling to me. KVM is not supported on my primary > platform (Loongson). Nevermind. I see now that there's no actual dependency on KVM, and that it merely wants a /dev/kvm node to propagate into the build environment. Mark