From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Clemmer Subject: Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS *** Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:09:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <33017962-EFD3-4931-A7FA-22EC3E25B073@inskydata.com> <87y3ae6k0y.fsf@netris.org> <87tvl17myn.fsf@netris.org> 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]:58414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gI0Y9-0007Ao-HG for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:09:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gI0Y3-0004cy-AE for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:09:24 -0400 Received: from mail-yb1-xb2a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::b2a]:36818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gI0Y3-0004co-5J for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:09:19 -0400 Received: by mail-yb1-xb2a.google.com with SMTP id w16-v6so7427441ybp.3 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:09:19 -0700 (PDT) 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: Mark H Weaver Cc: help-guix@gnu.org George Clemmer writes: > Hi Mark, > > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> George Clemmer writes: >>> Brian, I believe that what you are experiencing as a "hang" is actually >>> the incredibly long time that it takes for guile to bootstrap itself. >> >> That's not what's happening here, because this hang is happening during >> "make check". Thanks anyway :) >> >> Mark > > Well, ISTM 'make check-TESTS' is bootstrapping guile for some reason. I > say that because the fragment quoted by Brian ... > >> This is what is displaced on the screen when the hang occurs: >> >> =E2=80=A6 >> make check-TESTS >> make[3]: Entering directory =E2=80=98/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/g= uile-2.2.3=E2=80=99 >> Testing /tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/guile-2.2.3/meta/guile =E2=80= =A6 >> with GUILE_LOAD_PATH=3D/tmp/guix-guild-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/guile-2.2.3/tes= t-suite > > ... matches the log for ... > > building /gnu/store/55f2ihxyjyskpv9w0m2c4g0zcinjylif-guile-2.2.3.drv... > > ... that I have here. > > HTH - George And, with the current state of the guix infrastructure, even a 'guix pull' on a fresh vm-image triggers guile bootstrap. And a guile bootstrap, on the best of days, displays these symptoms: howling CPUs and hardly any disk activity. So, relative to what one expects when installing a distro this feels hung. Not the most confidence inspiring experience to subject a guix noob to ;-)