On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 09:06:51PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> leo@famulari.name (Leo Famulari) writes:
> >     gnu: qemu: Update to 2.9.0 [security fixes].
> 
> Thanks for this!  Obviously it's an important security update, but:
> 
> On my x86_64 system running GuixSD, 'grub' now fails to build from
> source.  Three times in a row, the 'grub_cmd_set_date' has failed.
> Here's the relevant excerpt from test-suite.log (lightly formatted):
> 
>   FAIL: grub_cmd_set_date
>   =======================

> Has anyone else seen this?

I just ran the build 5 times on my x86_64 machine, and it failed this
test 1/5 times.

We could try patching the test file with 'set -x' to trace the execution
of the script and see exactly what goes wrong.