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From: Brian Woodcox <bw@InSkyData.com>
To: x@wilsonb.com
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: *** GUIX SYSTEM DISK-IMAGE HANGS PINEBOOK PRO ***
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:49:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F12D288F-E139-4296-BEB8-C8EF9158F4EA@InSkyData.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dcc9da7.GBz7tmLyx5yXhMfc%x@wilsonb.com>

Thanks for the tip.  Unfortunately the gnu/build/vm.scm file explicitly states that it is buggy on ARM32 boards and should not be used, even if available.  I would assume that would be the case for aarch64 as well.

> On Nov 13, 2019, at 5:19 PM, x@wilsonb.com wrote:
> 
> I had a similar issue building a disk-image. It was on an x86 machine, and the
> build would error out right at that point. The fix was to put add my user to
> the 'kvm' group.
> 
> From looking at top during the build, it seems that the disk-image derivation
> is doing something with qemu. Is there even ARM support in the KVM? I am
> illiterate on that kind of thing, but hopefully this gives you a lead.
> 
> Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am using a Pinebook Pro (aarch64) to build a disk image.  However the build process stops very quickly when it gets to the ...-disk-image.drv...
>> 
>> The guix --version is guix (GNU Guix) d673993...1ce0f20 
>> 
>> The command that I am issuing is:
>> 
>> guix system disk-image -e "(@ (gnu system install) rockpro64-installation-os)"
>> 
>> I did not add --system=aarch64-linux as that should be implicit, since I am running this on an aarch64 system.
>> 
>> Also target-arm32 is required, so I had to edit the guix/utils.scm file so that would be set as true as follows (this is just an ugly hack):
>> 
>> (define (target-arm32?)
>>  (string-prefix? "aarch" (or (%current-target-system) (%current-system))))
>> 
>> Using strace on the command does not yield any obvious error.
>> 
>> building /gnu/store/qhc1l9kl9ly864r7vzpwfkql3fwa1dmp-system.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/587bzj89p3xrylishwvv3qcgmz9qliym-shepherd.conf.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/3wn68s1vs4l11jxs68k35dbzhi89ixb9-gc-roots.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/q1fidshxfja4a3np3mzwz9c3bih0s722-boot.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/7qn53w2sdrh2vfaykaaklgzv4qh68xqx-system.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/i6b2h9l9mv2ckdgcqmszwg647x9v3jlh-extlinux.conf.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/v7nhck2b7i9djf0fnk61lvgl3p4ff2gy-builder-in-linux-vm.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/jfqr107g0icghv07y3fii0i8afddbj9j-linux-vm-loader.drv...
>> building /gnu/store/wvk6gkbn3894dfwbb0y7nnnzrhljp3i0-disk-image.drv...
>> \ ^C
>> 
>> If anyone knows what the issue is, or how I could debug it, I would be happy to hear it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Brian.
>> 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-14  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-13 22:57 *** GUIX SYSTEM DISK-IMAGE HANGS PINEBOOK PRO *** Brian Woodcox
2019-11-14  0:19 ` x
2019-11-14  4:49   ` Brian Woodcox [this message]
2019-11-14  9:13 ` Efraim Flashner

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