Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

[jbranso@dismail.de]

October 23, 2024 at 4:05 PM, jbranso@dismail.de mailto:jbranso@dismail.de  wrote:



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> October 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM, "Felix Lechner" <felix.lechner@lease-up.com mailto:felix.lechner@lease-up.com?to=%22Felix%20Lechner%22%20%3Cfelix.lechner%40lease-up.com%3E > wrote:
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> > 
> > Hi Joshua,
> >  
> >  On Tue, Oct 15 2024, Joshua Branson wrote:
> >  
> >  
> >  It also only has 2GB of RAM with maybe 20GB hard drive.
> >  
> >  That's small. Please consider using a swap partition, if you aren't.
> >  
> >  
> >  May I ask why apt is SOOOOOO much faster?
> >  
> >  Probably because there are 5000000 fewer symbolic links.
> > 
> So I can't seem to run this command to build from source at the moment:
> 
> guix shell --fallback -D guix help2man git strace -CPW
> 
> build of /gnu/store/1aci9h5xv0di37v4wmrjxpd7bmca7fzr-strace-6.4.drv failed
> 
> It seems a test is strace maybe failing?
> 
> Would you mind trying the above command and see if it fals for you?

More issues...I successfully compiled guix from source.  and I tried to reconfigure
via ./pre-inst-env.  1st I tried using the newest compiled guix daemon:

$ sudo herd stop guix-daemon
$ cd guix-src;  # I am not in a guix shell at the moment
$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
  guix-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$
$ guix shell --fallback -D guix help2man git
$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
  guix-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ exit  # exiting guix shell

Ok, so I definely cannot use the newest compiled guix daemon.

$ sudo herd start guix-daemon  # I am currently in #guix-src
$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ../../guix/guix-config/bare-bones-sway.scm

and again, guix is trying to build several versions of rust...downloading a ton of stuff.
It seems like it is trying to bootstrap guix system.  Why would it be doing that?

Here's my guix system configuration:

https://git.sr.ht/~gnucode/guix-config/tree/master/item/bare-bones-sway.scm

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joshua
> 
> P.S. I'm currently using this command to build guix from source:
> 
> guix shell --fallback -D guix help2man git -CPW
> 
> > 
> > Kind regards
> >  Felix
> >
>