Re: GNU/Hurd on real hardware

[Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>]

Hi Janneke,


Quoting Janneke Nieuwenhuizen (2024-11-29 19:18:43)
> I succeeded in building a 32bit installer from commit
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> commit cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e
> news: Add entry for the Guix survey.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Lucky you! 😞

```
$ git checkout -b test_hurd cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e
# […]

# add `(kernel linux-libre-5.15)`

$ make -j 8; and ./pre-inst-env guix system image --image-type=iso9660 --system=i686-linux gnu/system/install.scm
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master'
Making all in po/guix
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/po/guix'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/po/guix'
Making all in po/packages
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/po/packages'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/po/packages'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master'
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
Compiling Scheme modules...
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master'
;;; compiling /home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
;;; compiled /home/tanguy/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.6/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl.go
;;; compiling /home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
;;; compiled /home/tanguy/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.6/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl.go
;;; compiling /home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
;;; compiled /home/tanguy/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.6/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl.go
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/'...
Backtrace:
In guix/store.scm:
   1330:8 19 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7f2e4de16d80 at g…> …)
  2210:25 18 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.100 7f2e4ff158c0> …)
In guix/gexp.scm:
   931:13 17 (_ _)
In guix/store.scm:
   2038:8 16 (_ _)
In guix/gexp.scm:
   300:22 15 (_ _)
In guix/store.scm:
   2038:8 14 (_ _)
In guix/gexp.scm:
   300:22 13 (_ _)
In guix/store.scm:
   2038:8 12 (_ _)
In guix/packages.scm:
  2037:11 11 (_ _)
In guix/build-system/channel.scm:
     43:2 10 (_ _)
In guix/store.scm:
  2082:38  9 (_ #<store-connection 256.100 7f2e4ff158c0>)
In guix/channels.scm:
   559:23  8 (latest-channel-instances #<store-connection 256.100 7…> …)
   430:12  7 (latest-channel-instance #<store-connection 256.100 7f…> …)
In guix/git.scm:
    353:7  6 (call-with-repository _ #<procedure 7f2e39e384e0 at gui…>)
In guix/git-authenticate.scm:
    403:4  5 (authenticate-repository #<git-repository 17e6e840> _ # …)
   262:20  4 (load-keyring-from-reference #<git-repository 17e6e840> _)
In git/branch.scm:
    101:8  3 (_ _ _ _)
In git/bindings.scm:
     77:2  2 (raise-git-error _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)

ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
Git error: cannot locate remote-tracking branch 'origin/keyring'
```

`origin/keyring` exist and its last commit is f8868dd56bff0f282329a33abb62262b2fc584b6
(add Ekaitz).

The "good" news is that it doesn’t seem to be a bug related to the Hurd! 😁

Regards,

-- 
Tanguy