Hi,

> Thanks! I can confirm this behavior also happens on my machine, running
> Guix on a foreign distro (Ubuntu, with kernel 5.11.0-25-generic). I ran
> into the problem while trying to build ‘bootstrap-tarballs’, and with
> your patch it works.
> 
> Just one suggestion: what about only deleting the problematic test if
> ‘%current-system’ is "i686-linux"?

Maybe it's required on other arches as well (32-bit arches that have a
64-bit counterpart maybe?), but that seems reasonable (more arches
can be added later).  A revised patch is attached.

Greetings,
Maxime.