Unable to upgrade packages

Unable to upgrade packages

[Niall Dooley]

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It seems I'm unable to upgrade installed packages with Guix. Below is the
output from the terminal. As you see I first tried to get the latest Guix
before upgrading. Is this an necessary step?

In any case, it was unsuccessful too. I don't believe I've ever been able
to
upgrade packages. I've only trieda few times from memory. Before today I
did
try the --fallback option as the error messages suggest but it seemed to be
downloading many files and as I was unsure what it was actually doing I
abandoned it.








































*[13:15 doolio@mars ~] > guix pullStarting download of
/tmp/guix-file.BxhQnXFrom
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz.
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz.>.. ….tar.gz
                                  1.1MiB/s 00:12 | 13.0MiB
transferredunpacking
'/gnu/store/7cs79c2d12cdxzam904f8nldidxhmns6-guix-latest.tar.gz'...substitute:
updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org
<https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'... 100.0%The following derivations will be
built:   /gnu/store/szq1skj2r10nnlpwhhybz5a5s7xaqjds-guix-latest.drv
 /gnu/store/7lla86k1270v3hwmn0cill79lm9v5rr3-module-import.drv
 /gnu/store/slclx1brrfw4c0icgx6dw3c8ssf35b7w-module-import-compiled.drvThe
following files will be downloaded:
 /gnu/store/49lfsdrai7w2bl7hip7p7qamm2fqv6sf-xz-5.2.2
 /gnu/store/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6fetching path
`/gnu/store/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6'...Downloading
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6
<https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6>
(547KiB installed)...guix substitute: error: download from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6
<https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6>'
failed: 404, "Not Found"fetching path
`/gnu/store/b17aiw216bqzdk33d3mmdlcw4cydsa4q-bzip2-1.0.6' failed with exit
code 1fetching path
`/gnu/store/49lfsdrai7w2bl7hip7p7qamm2fqv6sf-xz-5.2.2'...killing process
2773guix pull: error: build failed: some substitutes for the outputs of
derivation `/gnu/store/ml3xbmccnjvm3lx0mlay4jybqncj2zis-bzip2-1.0.6.drv'
failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to
build derivation from source [13:19 doolio@mars ~] > guix package
-usubstitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%substitute: updating list of substitutes from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org>'...
100.0%Downloading
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/d6y1yklydd0xjhfil47sb0mr65akcmkm-emacs-guix-0.3.tar.gz
<https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/d6y1yklydd0xjhfil47sb0mr65akcmkm-emacs-guix-0.3.tar.gz>
(335KiB installed)... emacs-guix-0.3.tar.gz  335KiB
                           1.1MiB/s 00:00 [####################]
100.0%Downloading
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/ff48qqv6vgizf3fv1h01ajl14l97wjlz-binutils-2.27
<https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/ff48qqv6vgizf3fv1h01ajl14l97wjlz-binutils-2.27>
(42.1MiB installed)...guix substitute: error: download from
'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/ff48qqv6vgizf3fv1h01ajl14l97wjlz-binutils-2.27
<https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/ff48qqv6vgizf3fv1h01ajl14l97wjlz-binutils-2.27>'
failed: 404, "Not Found"killing process 2806guix package: error: build
failed: some substitutes for the outputs of derivation
`/gnu/store/dkpnh0ivzw9r5pb5ghprlf33ppjlyx02-binutils-2.27.drv' failed
(usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to build
derivation from source*

Thanks for Guix and your time,

Niall

(irc doolio)

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Re: Unable to upgrade packages

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:16:11PM +0200, Niall Dooley wrote:
> It seems I'm unable to upgrade installed packages with Guix. Below is the
> output from the terminal. As you see I first tried to get the latest Guix
> before upgrading. Is this an necessary step?
> 
> In any case, it was unsuccessful too. I don't believe I've ever been able
> to
> upgrade packages. I've only trieda few times from memory. Before today I
> did
> try the --fallback option as the error messages suggest but it seemed to be
> downloading many files and as I was unsure what it was actually doing I
> abandoned it.

If you get 404 responses during `guix pull`, please let us know, since
--fallback is not yet implemented for `guix pull`.

For other commands that return 404 from our servers, you can either use
--fallback (build from source) and wait ~5 minutes, which is about how
long it takes for the mirror to populate itself after the first request
for some resource.

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Re: Unable to upgrade packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:16:11PM +0200, Niall Dooley wrote:
>> It seems I'm unable to upgrade installed packages with Guix. Below is the
>> output from the terminal. As you see I first tried to get the latest Guix
>> before upgrading. Is this an necessary step?
>> 
>> In any case, it was unsuccessful too. I don't believe I've ever been able
>> to
>> upgrade packages. I've only trieda few times from memory. Before today I
>> did
>> try the --fallback option as the error messages suggest but it seemed to be
>> downloading many files and as I was unsure what it was actually doing I
>> abandoned it.
>
> If you get 404 responses during `guix pull`, please let us know, since
> --fallback is not yet implemented for `guix pull`.

Finally fixed!

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=4902d3c4e0376974356481f222583580b49f39e1

So once you have successfully run “guix pull”, you’ll have a “guix pull”
that honors --fallback…

Ludo’.

Re: Unable to upgrade packages

[Niall Dooley]

Putting this back on the list as I mistakenly only hit reply in my last mail. I
hope this okay.

On 14 May 2017 at 17:42, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:15:03PM +0100, Niall Dooley wrote:
>> Hi Leo,
>>
>> Attached is the output when I try to run 'guix pull'. You'll see there
>> is a 404 response.
>> Thanks for your time.
>
> This substitute still returns 404 (checked with wget), so there are two
> options:
>
> guix pull --fallback (requires a recent Guix)
>
> guix build --fallback /gnu/store/db91i1ahr08b9n7hcjj2mmr4a1648ggz-guix-latest.drv
>
> I picked that derivation file out of your log after "The following
> derivations will be built:".
>
> In either case, you'll build the missing package from source.
>
> I hope that helps!

So as I'm running Guix 20170414.08 I don't believe I have a recent enough
version for option 1. In any case, option 2 is still unsuccessful for
me too though
I didn't record the output on this occasion. I suspect at this point I
did something wrong
in my use of Guix. Is there a way to cleanly remove and re-install
Guix. I don't mind as I
only have a handful of packages installed. I raised this query on a
separate thread as well
so apologies for the noise particularly if this is not best practice
on a mailing list.

Thanks as always for your time.

Niall

Re: Unable to upgrade packages

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:05:52PM +0100, Niall Dooley wrote:
> On 14 May 2017 at 17:42, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> > guix pull --fallback (requires a recent Guix)
> >
> > guix build --fallback /gnu/store/db91i1ahr08b9n7hcjj2mmr4a1648ggz-guix-latest.drv
> >
> > I picked that derivation file out of your log after "The following
> > derivations will be built:".
> >
> > In either case, you'll build the missing package from source.
> 
> So as I'm running Guix 20170414.08 I don't believe I have a recent
> enough version for option 1. In any case, option 2 is still
> unsuccessful for me too though

Okay, if `guix pull --fallback` complains about not understanding
'--fallback', then option 1 won't work.

> I didn't record the output on this occasion. I suspect at this point I
> did something wrong in my use of Guix.

It would be great to get the output so we know what happened, but I
understand if you don't want to take the time to run the command again.
I doubt you did anything wrong, however.

> Is there a way to cleanly remove and re-install Guix. I don't mind as
> I only have a handful of packages installed.

Removing these directories should do the trick:

$ rm -r /gnu && rm -r /var/guix && rm -r /etc/guix

There is also a symlink owned by each Guix user:

$ rm ~/.config/guix/latest