From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Lepiller Subject: Re: GuixSD installation issues (missing commands and build errors) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:07:38 +0200 Message-ID: <5A30E394-7E5D-47DA-9BB2-700896336AE1@lepiller.eu> References: 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]:56504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdWe4-0005s2-De for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:08:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdWdz-0004S7-7I for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:08:12 -0400 Received: from lepiller.eu ([89.234.186.109]:55180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdWdy-0004Os-SN for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:08:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org, nixd@tuta.io This looks like the kind of error that occurrs when your RAM is corrupted= =2E You should run a memtest I think=2E Le 12 juillet 2018 00:48:41 GMT+02:00, nixd@tuta=2Eio a =C3=A9crit : >I've encountered a problem with installing GuixSD 0=2E15 (from=C2=A0the l= atest >ISO image >(https://alpha=2Egnu=2Eorg/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0=2E15=2E0=2Ex86_64-li= nux=2Eiso=2Exz >) >burnt to a DVD)=2E I followed the manual as well as I could=2E >The first, no-so-important issue is that I get an error message about >some tools not beeing found by bash=2E These include mkfs=2Eext4, mkfs=2E= fat, >parted, cfdisk=2E These are the only ones I really used and noticed it >on=2E This doesn't always happen=2E Whenever I reboot from the DVD again, >the commands on which I get the error change=2E Sometimes for example >mkfs=2Eext4 doesn't work, something else might work, you reboot and >something else might break while mkfs=2Eext4 might work again, it seems >completely random=2E You can workaround this by executing these tools >directly from their directory (they are present!) such as going to >e2fsprogs directory and manually executing mkfs=2Eext4=2E >However, the real problem for is this: >First of all, I partitioned and mounted as follows:/dev/sda1 is the ESP >(I use EFI), mounted to /mnt/boot/efi/dev/sda2 is the main FS, label is >"my-root" like in the manual, ext4, mounted to /mnt/dev/sda3 is swap >I use the desktop=2Escm template as config=2Escm, minus the part for mapp= ed >devices and I replaced "my-root" with (file-system-label "my-root") >because guix system init told me to do so=2E, rest is left default=2E >On the first run of "guix system init /mnt/etc/config=2Escm /mnt" I get a >huge error message, its too big to even see all of it (lists many many >packages though)=2E The end says that the "builder for >/gnu/store/*-profile=2Edrv failed with exit code 1"=C2=A0 and=C2=A0 that = it "cannot >build derivation "/gnu/store/*-system=2Edrv: 1 dependencies couldn't be >built"=2E I am unsure which dependency could not be built=2E >When I run "guix system init /mnt/etc/config=2Escm /mnt" a second time I >get 5 package collision warnings (for wayland-egl=2Epc, giomodule=2Ecache= , >libwayland-egl=2Ela, mimeinfo=2Ecache, ifconfig), but it does get to the >copying to /mnt stage=2E >I then, at some point in the copying to /mnt stage, get the following >error: >"guix system: error: lstat: No such file or directory: " followed by a >package directory >I've tried this several times and the packages I got the errors on so >far were:guile-ssh 2 or 3 timesfuse 2 or 3 timesguile 1 time >It seems random on which of these packages I get the error=2E >I can't make any sense of these problems, and if further information is >needed I will of course provide it=2E Does anyone have an idea?