Re: core-updates call for testing

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

 ---- On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:20:41 +0000 sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> wrote ----
 >  ---- On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 +0000 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote ----
 >  > Hello Guix!
 >  > 
 >  > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing!  According to 'guix
 >  > weather', the substitute coverage is slightly better than on "master"
 >  > for x86_64.  You can get it by running:
 >  > 
 >  >   guix pull --branch=core-updates
 >  > 
 >  > Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for
 >  > anything that does not work for you.  GNOME users in particular are
 >  > encouraged to try the new GNOME 3.34 and report any regressions.
 > 
 > I pulled from core-updates without problems, but "guix upgrade" failed.
 > 
 > First, when running "guix upgrade", I got the following message, which I think is confusing because I use GNU, not Guix on a foreign distro:
 > 
 >     $ guix upgrade
 >     guile: warning: failed to install locale
 >     hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
 > 
 >          guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
 >          export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
 > 
 >     See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
 > 
 > Then, everything was going alright, until building emacs-guix derivation failed:
 > 
 >     building /gnu/store/6kdl0pyv7i571d6b4vcxskr75ffqw1mk-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv...
 >     \ 'configure' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/6kdl0pyv7i571d6b4vcxskr75ffqw1mk-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
 >     build of /gnu/store/6kdl0pyv7i571d6b4vcxskr75ffqw1mk-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv failed
 >     View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/6k/dl0pyv7i571d6b4vcxskr75ffqw1mk-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv.bz2'.
 >     guix upgrade: error: build of `/gnu/store/6kdl0pyv7i571d6b4vcxskr75ffqw1mk-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv' failed
 > 
 > 
 > The build log said:
 > 
 >     starting phase `configure'
 >     source directory: "/tmp/guix-build-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv-0/emacs-guix-0.5.2" (relative from build: ".")
 >     build directory: "/tmp/guix-build-emacs-guix-0.5.2.drv-0/emacs-guix-0.5.2"
 >     configure flags: ("CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash" "SHELL=/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash" "--prefix=/gnu/store/bqplgazij77awh62579p56wbnxdb1c2l-emacs-guix-0.5.2" "--enable-fast-install" "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
 >     configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-fast-install
 >     checking for a BSD-compatible install... /gnu/store/57xj5gcy1jbl9ai2lnrqnpr0dald9i65-coreutils-8.32/bin/install -c
 >     checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 >     checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /gnu/store/57xj5gcy1jbl9ai2lnrqnpr0dald9i65-coreutils-8.32/bin/mkdir -p
 >     checking for gawk... gawk
 >     checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
 >     checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
 >     checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
 >     checking for pkg-config... /gnu/store/krpyb0zi700dcrg9cc8932w4v0qivdg9-pkg-config-0.29.2/bin/pkg-config
 >     checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
 >     configure: checking for guile 2.2
 >     configure: checking for guile 2.0
 >     configure: error: 
 >     No Guile development packages were found.
 > 
 >     Please verify that you have Guile installed.  If you installed Guile
 >     from a binary distribution, please verify that you have also installed
 >     the development packages.  If you installed it yourself, you might need
 >     to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH; see the pkg-config man page for more.
 > 
 >     command "/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash" "./configure" "CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash" "SHELL=/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash" "--prefix=/gnu/store/bqplgazij77awh62579p56wbnxdb1c2l-emacs-guix-0.5.2" "--enable-fast-install" "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" failed with status 1
 > 
 > 


Then, I decided to remove emacs-guix, and try again to upgrade. This time, one of my packages in a custom channel failed with "no code for (term ansi-color)" (the package definition: https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guix-channel-x/-/blob/master/sirgazil-x/packages/guile.scm#L13). This is not a new package in my profile, I've been using it for a long time. Since both error seemed to be related to Guile, I removed all Guile-related packages from my profile and tried upgrading again. This time, the upgrade succeeded.

I moved on to reconfiguring the system with "sudo system reconfigure my-gnome-config.scm", which failed with the following error:

downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/24yvi2yyknfrpyb7linxd09dkpc560xp-nss-certs-3.50 ...
 nss-certs-3.50  133KiB                                                                                                                                                                             314KiB/s 00:00 [########          ]  48.3%Backtrace:
           3 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 7fb8bcb391e0>)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    705:2  2 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle?>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    619:8  1 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fb8bc7cf140>)))
In guix/ui.scm:
  1936:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)

guix/ui.scm:1936:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
Throw to key `encoding-error' with args `("scm_to_stringn" "cannot convert wide string to output locale" 84 #f #f)'.
substitution of /gnu/store/24yvi2yyknfrpyb7linxd09dkpc560xp-nss-certs-3.50 failed
killing process 2771
guix system: error: some substitutes for the outputs of derivation `/gnu/store/qnc4hww9jcc3sdd0hqs0n6zsfirf8h5r-nss-certs-3.50.drv' failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to build derivation from source