Turned verbosity of daemon to 5 and I got the below

downgrading to read lock on `/var/guix/temproots/1572'
locking path `/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv'
lock acquired on `/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv.lock'
recursively deleting path `/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv'
|   /gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv
`/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv' has hash 
`d9ddde832ca6671a86815f293a4d175cf8abad16146670c6d8030bf1edcd5e85'
linking ‘/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv’ to 
‘/gnu/store/.links/11ayrpnz22q3v3370rhl2snspy2w2x6klaazh631lrx65j1xxpfr’
lock released on `/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv.lock'
Backtrace:
          19 (_ #<procedure thunk ()> #<procedure list _> #<undefined>)
In guix/packages.scm:
  1205:22 18 (thunk)
  1138:25 17 (bag->derivation #<build-daemon 256.97 1826f50> #<<bag…> …)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29 16 (map1 (("source" #<origin "mirror://gnu/guile/guil…>) …))
   592:17 15 (map1 (("pkgconfig" #<package pkg-config@0.29.2 gn…>) …))
In guix/packages.scm:
   926:16 14 (expand-input #<build-daemon 256.97 1826f50> #<package…> …)
   881:14 13 (cache! #<weak-table 255/443> #<package pkg-config@0.2…> …)
In unknown file:
          12 (_ #<procedure thunk ()> #<procedure list _> #<undefined>)
In guix/packages.scm:
  1205:22 11 (thunk)
  1138:25 10 (bag->derivation #<build-daemon 256.97 1826f50> #<<bag…> …)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29  9 (map1 (("source" #<origin ("http://fossies.org/lin…>) …))
   592:29  8 (map1 (("tar" #<package tar@1.30 gnu/packages/boot…>) …))
   592:29  7 (map1 (("gzip" #<package gzip@1.9 gnu/packages/boo…>) …))
   592:17  6 (map1 (("bzip2" #<package bzip2@1.0.6 gnu/packages…>) …))
In guix/packages.scm:
   926:16  5 (expand-input #<build-daemon 256.97 1826f50> #<package…> …)
   881:14  4 (cache! #<weak-table 255/443> #<package bzip2@1.0.6 gn…> …)
In unknown file:
           3 (_ #<procedure thunk ()> #<procedure list _> #<undefined>)
In guix/packages.scm:
  1205:22  2 (thunk)
  1138:25  1 (bag->derivation #<build-daemon 256.97 1826f50> #<<bag…> …)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:17  0 (map1 (("source" #<origin "https://web.archive.org…>) …))

srfi/srfi-1.scm:592:17: In procedure map1:
Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &nix-protocol-error [message: "error parsing derivation 
`/gnu/store/bp0hyahbn3f60b954rfcz0vqlmc7lhzj-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv': expected string `Derive(['" 
status: 1] 7e7f300>)'.
Backtrace:
           9 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
In guix/ui.scm:
  1579:12  8 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    829:9  7 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f0f8aa7e9b8 at guix/ui.scm:611…> …)
    829:9  6 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f0f8aa7e9d0 at guix/ui.scm:729…> …)
    829:9  5 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f0f876e73d0 at guix/scripts/pu…> …)
In guix/scripts/pull.scm:
   505:22  4 (_)
In guix/store.scm:
  1555:24  3 (run-with-store _ _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ # _)
In guix/scripts/pull.scm:
    264:2  2 (_ _)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   191:27  1 (_ #(#(#<directory (build-self) 4a8c640> #<procedu…>) …))
In unknown file:
           0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("invalid build re…" …) …)

ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
invalid build result (#<derivation 
/gnu/store/c8sw72swmyhy0b25hgbz3b3pjvv73vd6-compute-guix-derivation.drv => 
/gnu/store/5ijqxijd3qgrfwgzncx9jcq9ivqlgkgm-compute-guix-derivation 49b5690> "")

Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.
Vikram

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 8:01 PM vikram sai balaji ulaganathan <tayirvadai.vikram@gmail.com> wrote:
Uname shows Linux 4.17.13-gnu #1 SMP 1x86_64

dmesg is not revealing anything. dmesg is not updating for this operation 
Is there another command that needs to be run or do I have restart guix daemon.

Thanks
Vikram

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, 10:57 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
Hello,

vikram sai balaji ulaganathan <tayirvadai.vikram@gmail.com> skribis:

> For a few weeks now, I have been trying to get guix pull to update
> everything but get the below error. Guix is at .15.0

What does “uname -srvm” return on this machine?

> In guix/serialization.scm:
>    371:23  3 (_ "bash")
>    357:13  2 (dump _)
>     225:6  1 (write-contents-from-port #<input: gnu/packages/bootst…> …)
> In unknown file:
>            0 (sendfile #<input-output: file 10> #<input: gnu/packag…> …)
>
> ERROR: In procedure sendfile:
> In procedure sendfile: Input/output error

Guix internally relies on the sendfile(2) system call to efficiently
communicate with the build daemon.  Here, it could be that the storage
device where those files are is dysfunctional, or that the file system
is corrupt, or that something is wrong with the kernel.

Does “dmesg | tail” show any useful hint when invoked right after the
error?

Thanks,
Ludo’.